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...Poorer than South...
...percentage column of any Crimson team since the 1945-6 basketball quintet and a tie for the lead of the New England Soccer League. The last time a Harvard team won the New England League was in 1933 when the soccer team under Jack Carr ended up with a poorer season's record than the 1947 team could arrange by winning Friday...
...there were things about their journey which many of them did not know. Most seemed ignorant of the fact that they were one small part of a mass movement -that Russia, which needs men for her farms & factories in Armenia, was bringing Armenians back by the thousands from poorer European countries and the Middle East. All 150 had renounced their U.S. citizenship and were sailing as Russian immigrants, but some had the mistaken idea that they could come back to the U.S. after a while if they didn't like the U.S.S.R...
...somber throughout . . . in the Russian manner." (Cracked a bystander: "It's a good thing Poe didn't write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than I am." In the U.S., explained Mrs. Rogers, "we don't necessarily squeeze pennies from poor people...
Scrap dealers wondered how long the steel companies could hold out. In August, when scrap rose to $42, the steel companies, by refusing to buy, drove the price down to $38. This time they were in a poorer bargaining position. Traditionally, the industry stocks up on scrap in the fall, before the cold weather slows down collection and transportation...