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...dangerous Hanoverian offering. Coach Hillman's strength this year lay in his versatile sophomores. Several stars of his 1925 Freshman team now came to the fore and eliminated his veterans. Moody, a rangy second year Green high-jumper, had cleared six feet and three inches to replace Herring, who had captured this event in the H-D-C meet the year before. In the broad jump, Glendenning, a former Andover flash, showed promise, and was in addition entered in the dash, the 300-yard run, and the relay. Other outside threats were Captain Russell of the Ithacan contingent...
...order to claim that their plan was really the more economical, the British trailed a red herring across the issue as follows. They stated the obvious fact that a small ship costs less than a large one, and then pointed out that their plan called for many ships individually smaller than those proposed by the U. S. delegation. Thus the British said in effect: "We want cherries and you want peaches. A cherry costs less than a peach, and therefore our plan is the cheaper...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...
...Fourth Reader was quite grown up, with more Bible selections and excerpts from Bacon, Addison, Milton, Shakespeare and an anonymous story about the woman who, by generously sharing her last smoked herring, rediscovered her long-lost...
...purpose of the Austin party to make a bird census of the Labrador coast. The effect of the relentless bird slaughter of the natives on bird life will be carefully studied. Among the birds who will be studied are the Great Black Backed Gull, Glaucus Gull, Herring, Gull, Puffins, Razor Billed Aul, Black Guillemot, and Arctic Tern...