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...members of the Purdue band spelled out PURDUE with lighted electric bulbs attached to their caps. Notre Dame 14, Carnegie Tech 3-when Notre Dame, this season reported preparing to modify the Rockne system, rallied with two touchdowns in the last half. California 10, St. Mary's oat Berkeley, where a crowd of 55,000 saw California linemen, outweighed 16 Ib. apiece, make openings for a touchdown and a field goal in the second quarter...
...students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they oat seven or fourteen meals per week in the House dining-rooms they should pay a rate representing as nearly as possible what such a number of meals is worth...
Hardest hit by Drought were corn and oats-both the shortest crops since 1881. Two years ago the corn crop was 2,900,000,000 bu., worth $560,000,000 at a farm price of less than 20? per bu. This year the harvest was only 1,380,000,000 bu. At an average price of 78? per bu. it was valued at more than $1,000,000,000. The oat crop was less than one-half that of 1932 but the farm price had jumped from 13? to 52? per bu. and total value increased in two years from...
...packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...
Farmers in eastern Illinois quit working their powdery fields. Around Rock Island the oat crop was conceded to be destroyed and cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago...