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...Seventeen men will make the trip, but Coach Mitchell emphasized the fact that he had as yet made no decision as to the final Varsity squad for the season. With the exception of a few veterans from last year, no one has yet definitely secured a berth on the team, and the Crimson baseball mentor stated that until further notice, all positions were still open...
...written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen pyramid" (crossword puzzle whose bottom line has 17 letters, top one). Most useful contribution was a new longest word in the English language, 45-letter "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis," to replace 28-letter "antidisestablishmentarianism." The new one means a kind of silicosis caused by particles of siliceous volcanic dust...
...next seventeen nominees were ranked as follows: Robert Sullivan, John H. Gardiner, George F. Roberts, Frank Keppel, Richard O. Ulin, John L. Dampeer, Cortney C. Smith, Peter T. Brooks, William Batt, William J. Clothier, Sherman P. Cotton, Henry R. Ames, Albert Stickney, Jr., Herbert L. Furse, Peter P. Hale, Aaron J. Himelhoch, and Dario C. Berizzi...
Switches clicked, the lathe-like machines began to hum. Seventeen minutes later in each of the 24 offices an operator opened the machine, withdrew a large cylinder, rushed it to a dark room. Another few minutes and the finished photograph of the wrecked airplane was on editors' desks around a 10,000 mi. circuit. Thus last week Associated Press inaugurated its new $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto service (TIME...
...genius at the age of fourteen and fully mature at seventeen, Mendelsohn experienced as much activity in his short life of thirty nine years as most men would in two lifetimes and the author has carefully guided the reader through the interesting development of his many struggles and less frequent pleasures...