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Getting off to a slow start that gave them a scant five point lead at the half, the Freshmen opened a 30 point third quarter barrage that sewed the game up. Captain John Rockwell notched 30 markers, leading his team to their eighth victory in nine starts, while Chuck Brynteson was t0he Crimson's second highest scorer with four field goals and four successful free throws...
Safe & Sound. He was the youngest of twelve children of a North Carolina doctor. He had worked his way through North Carolina State College, once visited England as a paid hand on a cattle boat and, with a scant $4 in his pocket, attended a memorial service for John Hay at St. Paul's. In 1929, after a successful law career and successive steps up the political ladder, he became his state's governor. In the four years he served he got things done, fixed the roads, paid the teachers, cut expenses, passed some social legislation, improved agriculture...
...long during the war") and tickled by the education gadgets (building blocks, boards with colored pegs) that helped to make learning more fun in the U.S. Other differences: more paper work; the higher cost of living (her English school still pays her salary, which comes to a scant $25 a week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means...
...Coach Hal Allen's untested Mormon last night gained their second straight one sided riumph. Much closer was the Freshman meet, where the Crimson oked out a 36 to 30 win over the Techmen. Trailing by a single point, the Yardlings captured the final free style relay by a scant three fact to defeat the boys from down the Charles...
...performances, as in the precarious pastime of doping the ponies, are the only suggestion to befuddled crystal gazers. Except for an informal affair with the Alumni last Saturday, tonight's plunge represents the baptismal sprinkling in competition for the Crimson watermen. A 51 to 15 victory score here offers scant comfort in itself, but Ulen appeared to be holding his heavy guns in reserve...