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...quite as great as it would have been if, in match play, he had been taking stroke for stroke with Jones. It had been a strange tournament. Most of the scores were posted in the club house, but anyone might still win it-even Jones. Turnesa had the likeliest chance. His 294 led the field. Leo Diegel, until he took a six on the short sixteenth, had seemed a sure winner. Hagen -"Third Round" Hagen-had thundered around, burning up the course, 4, 4, 3, 2, 4, with four bad holes to spoil his chances at the end. "Wild Bill...
Hitherto no American bank has been able to boast of resources totalling a billion dollars. Yet it is undoubtedly only a matter of time until some of our larger banking institutions break into the "billion dollar" class. The likeliest candidate at present is America's largest bank, the National City Bank of New York; that it is already within striking distance of the billion dollar figure is shown by its statement at the end of the first quarter of 1924, when its resources had reached...
Roger Gratwick and Eli Stillman are likeliest substitutes on the defense, and if all goes well tonight, and the University attains a sufficient score to allow a safe margin, it is probable that the team "B" men will get a chance to play. Carl Stillman, whose work has showed to good advantage at the cage in practice drills is a first choice as goal substitute...
...Bacon '21, shooting from the right and left wing posts respectively, are virtually certain of starting the game against the Canadians. Both are more dependable and show more finish than D. Angier '22 and C. W. Baker '22, the Team B wings, and the likeliest choices as substitutes...
...rather than by professors; so that our "best men", with their minds rather than with their memories, might have more favorable chance to spread the benefit of their advancement. There is a good deal in the suggestion, though it might be said that the substantial facts of education are likeliest to be imparted with success to the comparatively unwilling undergraduate by men of personality and authority and by processes making no too separate division of memory and mind...