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...Crimson swimmers effortlessly swept past a hapless Columbia squad, 76-19, Saturday at the I.A.B., to keep intact their undefeated season record. The Lions failed to win a single event all evening, and two of their four second place finishes were garnered by default when the Crimson swam only one man against them...
...Bruins have won two in a row, and are tied for seventh with Columbia, one game behind Harvard. Only the hapless Lions appear to provide an adequate if not very soft cushion at the bottom of the league for the lagging Crimson...
...giants of Communism no longer seriously bothered to conceal the extent of their quarrel, but in a curious, ritualistic way, they continued to insult by proxy. Each directed its heaviest invective against the rival's hangers-on and harassed those hapless party figures who symbolized the opposing ideological camps...
...Form. Indignant bird fanciers conjure up new plans each year for halting the Belchenschlacht (Belchen slaughter) that stretches from November through February. But each year the hunters return. When Swiss and German S.P.C.A. members staged a protest meeting, angry hunters bombarded them with birdshot. So far, the hapless Belchen's only hope is fog. On both the Swiss and German sides of Lake Constance, Belchen hunting in the fog is prohibited: a stray shot might nick a hunter, and this would be considered bad form, even for a Belchenjagd...
...place and his personal battle grew increasingly ambiguous. The Halberdiers teemed with weird Waugh characters-from one-eyed, ruthless Brigadier Ritchie-Hook through Trimmer, an ex-hairdresser on the Aquitania. to the knowledgeable ass, Apthorpe, whose portable jakes provides Waugh with an outlet for numerous excursions into scatology. Hapless Guy inadvertently kills him at the end with the gift of a bottle of whisky when Apthorpe was suffering from fever...