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...first to cross the line over a course which was very muddy and slippery, although the weather had cleared rather cold for the race. He was followed in succession by Arthur Foote '33. B. E. Estes '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, and the first Yale man to finish, Grist. Five more Harvard runners finished before Yale was able to continue scoring. Captain R. C. Aldrich '31, handicapped by a bad cold, was unable to place...
...mass of grist flowing daily through the New York Herald Tribune's copy desk, beginning next week (July 1), will be one telegraphed sheet immune from the copyreader's darting pencil. A chaste headline may be scribbled at its top, neat paragraph marks made, but nothing else. Rendering this piece of copy sacred will be the line: "By Calvin Coolidge...
...Teams may combine efforts in ridding a certain property of rats. Guns, clubs and traps are variously used in their destruction. The rats will be brought from cover in an organized drive and as many as can be killed are mowed down by competing huntsmen. Village dumps and old grist mills are favorite rat rendezvous...
Consequent to the first report of the National Commission on Law Enforcement. Prohibition last week came into sharper focus in Congress than at any time since its inauguration, ten years ago last week. The Commission's report had furnished substantial grist for the legislative mill. Of its recommendations the most important (the Commission gave it No. 1 place), the most likely to become law at this session of Congress, was that for the transfer of the Government's dry enforcement arm from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Such a transfer, as all the world knew...
...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...