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...After a hard-fought victory over Lowell last week Adams was handed a 5 to 2 lacing by Dunster, and the icemen from down by the Charles moved into second place by virtue of the rout, a half game behind the leading Winthrop...
Little Logan, "a gorilla for screaming," was converted in a bathroom by his six-year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...
Four of his Yale players left the field with doctors during the hard-fought encounter, tackle Brooks, end Dyess, and halfbacks Wilson and Burr, but all appeared okay in the dressing-room. Yale played into the third quarter without a single substitution...
...Stooge Cárdenas-and that was all people thought he was-to smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying...
Battling till the end, the rugby team lost a hard-fought match to Princeton at Soldiers Field on Saturday, 11-6. The outcome of the contest was uncertain until the last minute of play when Princeton scored the winning...