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Harvard's Museum of Mineralogy gave the lie yesterday to a group of ERA workers at Salisbury Beach who claimed that they had escaped death from the skies by the merest chance...
Expeciations for a decisive win by the Varsity batsmen over a weak Terrier baseball club were fulfilled to the satisfaction of the merest bat-boy yesterday afternoon when the Mitchellmen walloped the B.U. ball club to the tune of 14-4 on Nickerson Field at Riverside...
...none of the girls have seen her. The red-headed Ruth with limpid eye exists as a real menace, a panther grimly lurking in dark corners, ready to spring from her lair only to capture the myriad of Harvard youths who have been vainly looking, longing, searching for the merest glimpse of those Eire eyes, those laughing lips, those daring dimples--all portrayed so accurately by the Boston Sunday Advertiser. Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose; the Harvard youths should wear that winter face! May the Foul Fiend fly away with that nasty photographer...
Carefully concealed for the past few years, the red ace up China's silken sleeve is Bolshevism. Last week China's reaction to the League of Nations' failure so far to help her against Japan was to make a motion toward her trump. Only the merest motion, for the Chinese gentlemen who compose the present government are astuteness itself. They let big, round-face Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov announce with unction at Geneva last week that Russia, the world's largest nation, and China, the world's most populous nation, have resumed the diplomatic relations which China broke...
...continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present British "National" (Conservative) Government has so obviously packed the Conference with Indian yes-men and nobodies...