Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the contests with Yale still occupy the dominant position on Harvard athletic schedules, they are no longer the sole aim of Varsity programs. It has been recognized that the main function of all the games, aside from the financial one, is to provide instruction and competition for accomplished athletes. There ought, accordingly, to be a revision of the present unjust arrangement which permits a man to go without reward even though he has participated in all the games but that with Yale. Such a step is particularly necessary in those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute...
...should be to induce a resurgence of investing and hence a great rise in purchasing power. It is this fact which has led to an increasing demand, both inside and outside the banking community, for revision of the act, in order to overcome what is now quite probably the main threat to recovery...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
Fearful lest consumptives throw up their present arduous treatment in the hope of an easy cure, medical men leaped to challenge Dr. Maher's thesis on two main counts...
...foreign army teams had come-the International Military Trophy, won two years straight by the U. S. First to jump were the Swedes. So intent were they on carrying home the trophy that they had shrewdly kept their superb mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett...