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From there on the water grew continually rougher due to a quartering east wind. The Seniors took the lead shortly after passing under the Harvard Bridge and were followed closely by the second year crew with S. W. Swami '31 setting the beat. The juniors trailing slightly in the rough water, made their final bid for second place in the last quarter mile, crossing the finish line a half length behind the Sophomores...
...Barbee '28 will start on the mound for Harvard. The Crimson ace has always found the going rougher in a Yale series than in any other games of the season, but if he has a good day, the Elis should be kept well in check. F. B. Cutts '28, who has always pitched his best ball against Yale in a relief role, should be able to put to good advantage the large amount of experience he has gained this seasons if he is called upon this afternoon. Howard Whitmore '29, is a third pitcher who deserves to rank with Barbee...
...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
...recognizing only its opponents; 4) Nanking, possessing the wealthy background of Shanghai, seems momentarily the most stable of the independent governments. It actually controls more territory and engenders greater confidence among the substantial elements of the Chinese people; 5) The Chinese are unable to control mobs and the rougher elements; hence protection on our part is still necessary and probably will continue to be necessary...
...California young Philip D. Armour I made money ditching water to placer mines. In a rough-&-tumble life, he was rougher than most and tumbled with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...