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...analogy stops there. West Point has a better line, more balance in the backfield and more defensive grit than last year. Jim Kelleher, elongated end and plebe frank Merritt are the standouts of a tremendous forward wall that repulsed Lafayette, Cornell and Columbia's Governali so well. In the Columbia tussle the Lion's ace pitcher was rushed unmercifully by these behemoths, resulting in the complete throttling of their pass attack...
...detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...
Probably the most thrilling event of the night was the final relay, in which. "Big John" Eusden, swimming the anchor leg, showed grit, speed and stamina in nosing out Princeton's Frank Masland. Previous to this race, Eusden had taken a second and third place in the 50 and 100 yard free styles respectively...
...City English Playwright Storm has pictured backstage life at the Windmill while the bombs are falling outside. Lovely and lightly clad showgirls duck in & out of dressing rooms, rehearse, have their fun, lose their hearts, stifle their fears. The play is a tribute to two kinds of grit, "There'll Always Be An England" weaving in with "The Show Must...
From first-year sales of eight carloads, the Davidsons have built up a demand which this year will take 1,300 cars of their grit-enough for 39,000,000 chickens. Thanks to Claude Wickard's program for increased farm production, next year's demand looks even bigger. So the Davidsons, faced with the need for expansion, went to OPM and argued that they were in the defense business, too. OPM finally agreed...