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...group is the team itself. Few students know the actual drudgery that goes into the building of a great gridiron machine. Beginning early in September every man on the squad, and many that did not make the Varsity, worked for over three hours a day in a hard, bruising grind on the practice fields. They worked, and it is the hardest kind of physical labor, for most of the fun is reserved for the Saturday games; and they did more. Their whole lives for the fall months revolve around thoughts only of football. Yet all are required to keep grades...
...sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared $725. In his second, he expects to do twice as well, cut his mortgage in half...
...Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond the Rhine, German editors began to grind out reams of comment extremely favorable to Italy and in terms of her right to "equality" and "honor." This was the kind of talk which most easily fires Nazis and they fairly ate it up. Soon even the London Times, frequently pro-German, sympathetically observed "the Italian demand for parity...
...recommendations of 2,000 doctors for remedying the state of U. S. Medicine, including the difficulties of sick people in getting good medical services and the difficulties of good doctors in earning a decent living. Deliberately omitted from those questioned were doctors who might have an ax to grind, such as the executives and trustees of the American Medical Association...
...early in the year, any doubts as to the ability of Coach Tom Bolles to develop a winning sprint crew were dissolved, and all that he has to prove now is that he can change them back into a boat which can withstand the gaff of a four-mile grind and come up the winner as well as they have during their spring races...