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...clash. Chicago brought a scrappy, courageous team which looked very flashy and tricky for a while, but the eleven was in such poor condition that the latter part of the encounter was distinctly harrowing, and the same early flashiness and trick stuff later on looked very much like a pick-up game...
College students are finding it very convenient and economical to send their laundry home by the pick-up and delivery service of Railway Express, according to the Company's local agent...
...date the Crimson has had little difficulty in downing a pick-up team in Washington and the Middies during the spring trip. Last week Coach Harry Cowles' men defeated Williams 8-1. Williams' lone point was scored, when Al Jarvis edged Dave Burt, first man for the Varsity...
Abandoning intercollegiate competition for a mid-week pick-up game, the Crimson Postoffice team last night romped over the Katie Gibbs kissers in a colorful match that was called at four o'clock this morning owing to daylight. "We gambolled and lost," Miss Lydia Lipps, RFD, told the CRIMSON later...
...himself as simply worry them apart. He examined the friendships of his victims, their financial jams, their new & old love affairs, their prejudices, inhibitions, the tormented jokes they cracked about their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal monstrosities turned up to give substance to their fears and suspicions. Readers might feel that Author O'Hara...