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After a brilliant first inning which saw three Crimson runs cross the plate on a single, a double and a triple, the bottom suddenly dropped out and amid a flurry of errors and extra-base hits, the Boston University nine went on to wallop the Stahlmen by a lop-sided 15 to 7 score on windswept Nickerson Field yesterday afternoon...
...conservative man, Murray plants his feet firmly, but only after he is sure which way he wants to face. When Murray was elected C. I. O. president last November, to succeed John L. Lewis, some observers expected him to lop off the heads of C. I. O. Communists. No heads have been lopped yet. One man accused of Communistic leanings is C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman. Another is Wyndham Mortimer, organizer for the automobile workers. Murray accepts their denials of Communism. He must have definite proof of an aide's deviation from C. I. O. principles before...
...touches to a brand-new Pan American Airways airport. What seagoing Pan Am was doing so far from the seacoast was best explained by a sheaf of papers on the desk of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, awaiting his signature. Signed, they would permit Pan Am to lop two days off its five-day, 5,777-mile run from Miami down to Rio de Janeiro...
...wandering" lake was Lop...
...suddenly disappeared, reappeared farther south. Lou-Ian, the city bordering it, became a sandswept ruin; the rich surrounding country went back to desert. In 1901 Hedin predicted that the lake would return to its old bed. In 1921 it did. He tells the story of Lop-nor, describes his explorations on and around...