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...Seventeen and three-quarters pounds of owl flesh, genus bubonibae, were perched comfortably on Sophomore Harold T. Blaine's couch when he woke up in his Leverett House lodgings early yesterday morning. The creature flopped its wings ominously when Blaine approached it and chased him from the room...
...late entries was Betsy Waffie of Charlestown, who plans to "put the Waffie on the Harvard gridiron." The seventeen-year-old world's champion batonnetter came dressed in a royal blue marching uniform, and carrying her pet one pound and ten ounce brass baton...
...seventeen-year survey of the munition potentialities of American industries, the War Department studied 20,000 plants and found 10,000 suitable for war production. Full cooperation was received from owners and staffs of the plants, many of them assuming heavy personal expense in aiding the investigation and making changes to fit the plants for war work...
Representing the student body in the College government is its business, and a majority of its seventeen members (six from the Junior and eleven from the Senior class) are elected by their classmates. The rest are appointed by the elected men to ensure that all groups are represented...
...back to the Caribou to be coupled with her gas tank valves. While the two planes soared out over Foynes at 120 m.p.h., the tanker flushed the pipe line with nitrogen (to remove air, which, in combination with gasoline, might explode), pumped after it 800 gals. of fuel. Seventeen minutes later she uphauled the line, waved cheerio and cocked around for home. The Caribou knuckled down to her 3,500-mile flight against heavy winds...