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...clock, in the stone-paved Quincy Street courtyard facing the Varsity Club, the students of the oldest and most blase of America's universities will gather to steal a Big Green leaf out of Dartmouth's book by staging a mass rally in an effort to hoist the team from Hanover on its own enthusiastic petard...
Actually the Southern mines retained more than 80% of their cost advantage on labor, for day labor in the coal mines is confined to maintenance men, hoist operators and other special employes. The men who do the actual coal mining are paid by the ton instead of the day and in Southern mines still get 15? a ton less than in Northern mines-a differential that was not in dispute. The 40? differential was estimated to save only...
...days after Stalin's hoist by his own bootstraps, the Soviet press announced that Russia was concentrating no troops in the Ukraine, no naval forces in the Black Sea. The day after that Russia recognized Nazi control of Norway, Belgium, Yugoslavia. This week the U.S.S.R. announced recognition of the Naziphile Government of Iraq...
...revolutionist. She is more of a belated Victorian with a full Victorian concern with moral problems. Last year she told Irita Van Doren: "I would lead the revolution myself if I were sure I'd get the right heads on my pike." The heads that Ellen Glasgow would hoist would please few revolutionists. No group is without them and no group has a monopoly of them. Ellen Glasgow has been thrusting at them since she started writing. They are called intolerance, injustice, inhumanity...
...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...