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Stifler is Browns Mainstay...
...surplus for the year ending June 30 and that consequently not one heller (1/100 of a crown) of" the 100,000,000 reserve had been utilized. Moreover, he averred that he could draft a budget for the coming year that would show a surplus. Excellent prospects for agriculture, the mainstay of the Hungarian Kingdom, were also reported...
Moreover, in the hasty departure of Professor Baker from Cambridge to New Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse...
Eastman, who was for two years a tackle on the University football team, and a mainstay of the line, was dwarfed into insignificance beside the huge bulk of Munn, who is six feet six inches tall and weighs 265 pounds...
...Outerbridge, who has just been elected captain of the Freshmen, is the mainstay of his team. The other men who will go to Yale on the 1928 team are E. A. Morrison, G. T. Carroll, and J. E. Barnett...