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...pack of forty harriers started and finished their mile and three-quarters grind in front of the Newell Boathouse...
...Rhine near the coal of the Ruhr was four-fifths of her industry. In that neighborhood are 16 cities with populations of better than 100,000 apiece-among them Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf, Duisborg-Ruhrort, world's largest inland port. But the mills of industry do not grind without metal-bearing ores, and Germany was weak in them...
...Even hard-boiled reporters were moved. One old newshawk, tough as a boot, confessed to a throat lump big as a doorknob. Willkie himself had wet eyes. At long last, and perhaps in spite of himself, Wendell Willkie was finding out that a Presidential candidate must do more than grind away at his ax: he must dramatize himself...
Jaakko Mikkola's cross country squad proved its speed against Boston University Saturday by capturing the first six places in the three mile grind. Captain Langdon Burwell took first place in the record time of 18:36.3 followed by Joe McLoughlin, Kay Ragers, John Sopka, Ed Cook, Robert Nichols, John Frederickson (B.U.) and Tom McElligott...
...luck that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest, most academic manuscripts he can find as samples of modern culture...