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Distressed was the British press, which had looked to the report for something to bolster the public's wavering faith in Britain's lighter-than-air program. Some thought they heard the knell of the dirigible in Britain's air service, began to talk of dismantling the R-100 which has lain idle in her hangar at Cardington since last year's unspectacular flight to Canada...
...government. To gain Hitler's support, Chancellor Heinrich Briining would doubtless be forced to turn over the minister of interior to a Fascist, placing police power in Demagog Hitler's hands just as it now is in Thu- ringia. That, believe lovers of Democracy, would ring the knell of the Republic...
...players enough to have two teams-one for days, one for nights. Once they were used to one set of conditions, players could not switch from one team to the other. 3) All old-time managers, opposed to change on principle, dislike the experiment, say it "sounds the knell of baseball." Of the 16 big league managers, only two, Gabby Street, St. Louis "Cards" and Dan Howley, Cincinnati "Reds," are slightly interested...
...announcement that a board had been appointed to investigate the entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...
...hockey season has already gone its limit and only the professionals are still at it on the ice. But professional schedules always run longer in any sport. The teams at the other Universities have turned in their skates at least two weeks ago. Winter sports have heard the death-knell and spring athletic teams are in the stage of preparation. Several of the hockey players are already overdue to report for their respective spring sport. Then, too, the Seniors on the squad have dreaded divisionals looming before them which come shortly after spring vacation. Another thing to be considered...