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...time for the winners was seven minutes and seventeen seconds, which is rather slow for the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles, but was not too bad in this case on account of the disadvantageous conditions. The Bellboys followed the Anglers at about one and one-half lengths with a time of 7.23; the Kirkland oarsmen trailed them by three-quarters of a length, turning in a time of 7.26; and the Rabbits drove the whole fleet across the finish in 7.28, a half-length behind the third boat...
...half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...
...effort to find out just how much money the world spends on armaments. So pleasant did they find each other's company that one weekly meeting was converted into a Beer Club. Last week they published their report and sadly blew the froth off a final meeting. Seventeen months of effort could produce no authoritative figures later than 1931, when the world spent about $6,000,000,000 for guns, warships, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, bombs and bullets of every variety. And even for that year many small nations would submit no complete documentation of their military expenses...
...Seventeen Jayvee baseball players, with a week's practice behind them, will travel to Andover this afternoon to meet the Phillips Andover Academy nine at 2 o'clock in the second game of the season...
...stop in Detroit. U. S. Immigration Inspector Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long had he been away? Seventeen months. Did he not know that an alien who left the country for more than six months must have a consular visa to return? Messrs. Johnson and Ryan angrily intervened. They protested, they waved their extradition papers, they pointed at President Roosevelt's signature, they refused to let Inspector...