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...safe came the sacrosanct loose-leaf relic. Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell...
...inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic of the Little Flower to Mrs. Smith, and a Good Shepherd medal to both...
...Yard is now a thoroughfare for perambulator and high school traffic, as well as for non-stop flights from the Houses to the Science labs, and we have an eight year old House spirit "tradition". The Hollis Hall pump, in the eyes of sightseers, is a three century old relic. In the eyes of students it is a year old pump...
Originally set up to handle German Reparations, the B.I.S. is now in somewhat the same category as the League of Nations—a noble relic. It makes a little money out of various banking operations, including the settlement of international postal balances, serves as a sounding board for collective European banking thought, issues astonishingly good reports, largely written by its Swedish economic adviser, Per Jacobsson. In last week's report Per Jacobsson was disturbed not only by gold but by armaments...
...West. A relic of the days when basketball rules as well as basketball rivalries were purely local are conventions of play like the Pacific Coast Conference system whereby each team plays its rivals four times, twice on each one's court. Last week Stanford, apparently the best team in, its Conference and one of the best in the country, beat California at Berkeley, 36-to-32, in a game featured by the fact that its 6 ft. 3 in. forward, Hank Luisetti, whom Coach John Bunn calls the greatest player in the history of the game, was held...