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...thinking back to the origins of bread & cake. The French wheat-man-a close friend of Herbert Hoover, and of Georges Clemenceau-is M. Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling thrust of advertising...
...Crimson boats, powerful as they generally are conceded to be for a four mile grind are not favored against the Navy over the probable mile and five sixteenths distance on the Schnylkill...
...automobiles stood side by side, their motors rumbling, their front wheels on the starting-line of the Indianapolis speedway. At the flash of the signal the two roared off in a cloud of blue exhaust, the drivers handling their cars carefully, expertly, in anticipation of the 24-hour grind that lay ahead of them...
...series of stiff practice sessions since their trial race last week, the two University crews will compete again at 4 o'clock this afternoon in a mile and three quarters test over the Charles River Basin course. The Ineligible combination, which showed surprising strength in the previous handicap grind, is scheduled to start with them as a competitor in the event...
Crew A will be handicapped in the distance grind by the absence of P. W. Wilson '30 and C. S. Petrusch '30 from the 5 and 7 seats. The substitutes for these men have not yet been named. A. C. Gray '30 will set the stroke for Crew...