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...Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...
Such methods as those to which Mr. Cohen has stooped are cheap, idle and ineffectual. They are unbecoming enough to anyone in political argument but especially so in his case; as publicity manager of the "Harvard Thomas-for-President Club" he can ill-afford with his meager following of a hundred, to give the impression that his party sanctions the use of such weapons...
Reason: money-it being notorious that the pay of a Cabinet Minister* has proved too meager to support the extravagant whims* of Lord Birkenhead, who was. before he took Cabinet rank, "the highest feed barrister in England...
...already humbled the Engineers once this season, but only after a hotly contested battle. The final score of 4 to 3 indicates the equality of the two teams and points to a very close contest this afternoon. In the last game a seventh-inning Tech rally failed by the meager margin of one run to tie the score and send the game to extra innings...
...report of the first Princetonian workout for Saturday's game with the CRIMSON was received at a late hour last night. Judging from the meager laconic statements of the dispatch, optimism reigns high in the Tiger camp. The CRIMSON squad has made its already rigorous training program more intensive than ever, for reports from scouts in Nassau have told of the power and aggressiveness of the Princetonian outfit...