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...whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected "that if a mountain is worth climbing at all, it is worth climbing without these adventitious aids, or with at least...
...brought up to be ignorantly innocent, to hope that the right man would come along some day. But the War had left England a million men short, and Georgie was not attractive enough to win out in the manhunt. She tried to be in love with Purfleet, an intellectual light-weight who was cautiously attracted by her massive virginity, but as soon as marriage was in the wind Purfleet showed a clean pair of heels. Georgie's big chance came when Geoffrey, a stupid but eligible young planter, spent his leave with her family. Georgie was the first white...
Three 150-pound eights are scheduled to go through their second time trial of the season today over a mile course. The boats, which are approximately equal in strength, have been found to lead the fleet of seven light-weight boats in smoothness and in power. The race will start at 2 o'clock, and will probably continue upstream from above the railroad bridge to the Weekes Memorial Bridge, a distance of a little over a mile...
...addition to coaches Haines and Whiteside, Captain L. W. Dickey '30 and R. F. W. Smith '30, manager, will address the meeting. F. R. Sullivan '27, coach of the 150-pound crews will speak to the light-weight candidates and it is expected that Dr. Edward Harding '11 will give a few tips on training at both gatherings...
Prominent among, recent football reforms is the suggestion offered by the Brown Daily Herald of creating 150-pound varsity football teams which should represent universities along with regular elevens. The idea of light-weight football teams has its analogy in crew, where the custom has been long-standing...