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...acquired the habit of chewing sticky Greek candies between puffs on his pale cigar. Just before the verdict was expected he shook hands with Hunter Harness who might soon be escorting him back to the U. S. under guard. Then Presiding Judge Panegyrakis emerged with a fistful of scratch paper on which he had penciled the Court's decision. No light affair, it began with 25 minutes worth of ambiguity, got down to cases only in the last ten minutes, when the Presiding Judge exclaimed: "It is agreed that the man whose extradition is asked...
...Charles in 27 minutes, 43.4 seconds to win the annual University handicap cross country run. John P. Scheu '35, promising varsity harrier, without his handicap of fifteen seconds had the best actual time. Hampered by the weather conditions, Robert S. Playfair '36, the only man to start from scratch, failed to finish among the leaders. Yesterday's race was the last true competition the varsity runners will have before the I. C. 4A. meet which takes place in New York City on November...
...afternoon at 3.30 o'clock over the four and one-half mile course at Soldiers Field. Among those running will be Robert S. Playfair '36, stellar Crimson harrier, who recently won the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Cross Country Run and Charles F. Woodard '35, both of whom will start from scratch. Handicaps will be announced just before the start of the race. Last year's run was won by Frederick L. Steele, 3d '33, while Arthur Foote '33, starting from scratch, was setting a new course record of 22 minutes, 32.2 seconds...
...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...
...bellicose air. "You are to take all readings in the laboratory in your notebooks," he said. "You are not to make notations on any other paper, of any sort. If you do, it will be to your disadvantage; the assistants have been instructed to take all miscellaneous notes on scratch paper they find on your desks and throw them away...