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Determined that their English A training shall not go for naught, undergraduates have been straining their mentalities in search of original expressions of love and gratitude for mother. That their efforts are not in vain is shown by the telegraph office manager's statement that Harvard me far surpass the average telegram-writer in ingenuity...
Their name is naught...
...retreat from Crete was something more than a military massacre. It had some of its roots in the management of the home industrial front. . . . Our efforts shall not be brought to naught by a group of incompetents. . . . There are men in Britain who think patriotism is another name for profit and democracy a synonym for dividends. . . . There will be more Cretes unless changes are made in this country...
...last week Frank O'Hearn's eight years seemed to have gone for naught. Buffalo newspapers refused to carry a deposit advertisement. Panicky Buffalo merchants who had accepted National Depository "checks" scrambled to get back goods or cash. The New York State Banking Department Examiners moved in to investigate. While Frank O'Hearn's son and chief helper, Douglas, sought to splice the parting strands of his father's dream, Father Frank was kept from re-entering the U. S. after a weekend in Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped...
...Surt, Why naught?" assented Puey. "I'm game." He coughed...