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...cruncher came when a group of eight Senators offered an amendment to lop a cool $197 million off the bill. The amendment's chief promoter was Nevada's George W. Malone, a former prize fighter who had made a one-man survey of Europe in an airplane. He had found, he said, that in some cities U.S. relief supplies were being sold on the open market...
...generally grasped that the scale of a Student Activities Center might be less ambitious; and that dropping such recreational features as a dance hall and a snack bar with adjoining flagstoned terrace could well lop off entire floors. But the damage has been done. Once the first on-paper version of the project had found its way to the committee members, the Student Activities Center had become identified with inaccessibly grandiose magnificence of the $6,000,000 stripe...
Finalists in the annual College Sculling Regatta will ruffle up the Charles this afternoon, as leaders in each of the six oars divisions race for the silver medals and Dorsey Memorial Cup waiting at the finish line. The four singles winners will enter a playoff tomorrow to decide the lop-ranking undergraduate sculler...
Stepping back after an upset victory over Leverett earlier in the week, a wild-shooting Adams quintet was ploughed under by Lowell House in the second game of the afternoon by a lop-sided 47 to 29 figure. Fred Donahue led the Bellboy avalanche with 25 points to cop high scoring honors of the day. Lowell, using its greater height to advantage, had the Gold Coasters boxed up throughout the game...
...announced aim of this and other orders is to lop off a fourth of the Army's existing strength by the year...