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Harvard's Varsity soccer team will lose its entire scoring trio, the three forwards in the center of the line, when graduation comes next June. Only the problem of cracking that nut bothers the Crimson booters, who wiped away their tears over previously losing their chance at the Intercollegiate championship, when they wound up the season by defeating Yale 1-0 Friday. If the Tiger had been taken to town the Crimson would lead the league...
...place of their own accord. The motor's fan becomes a propeller as the imp flies the engine down into chassis. It was Mr. Ford's own idea to have the imp sucked out of the automobile body by "No-draft ventilation," to make him throw a nut at a window which does not shatter. With a flourish of trumpets, 4,999 changes into 5,000. As the grimacing imp changes back into an insignia the cinema closes with a happily synchronized major chord...
...from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
Vanderbilt, one of the Yale Colleges, will furnish the opposition for the Angler oarsmen in the races which will be run off at Derby, Connecticut; and according to all reports, they are going to prove a tough nut to crack. As champions of the Elis, they cleaned up everything in their regatta held several days...
Long Life. Seth Lincoln, 91, of Worcester (Mass.), works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...