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...test the Harvard line to any degree. The three first downs which the opponents were able to pound out, however, were largely the result of sloppy tackling. On the offensive the Crimson line did not show a consistent life. Players frequently cross-charged ineffectively, allowing opposing forwards to sift through and it was only the shifty running of the backs which prevented a resultant loss of ground...
...Brownell '30, who has been rowing at two, and J. W. Hallowell, '31, a member of the third University squad, were tried out at six. There were also a number of temporary shifts in the bow fours of the Jayvee and third crews in an attempt to sift out the best men. In addition to the first and second crews, five oarsmen will go to Red Top later in June with the Freshman substitutes and will form a combination crew to race the Elis on the day preceding the regular regatta...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur promptly picked a committee of three to sift outstanding drilling permits. They were: Commissioner of the General Land Office William Spry, Director of the Geological Survey George Otis Smith, Interior Department Solicitor Edward C. Finney. They will revoke permits which have lapsed or under which specified development has not occurred...
...chief extra-curriculum activity was on behalf of the Harvard Athletic Association. On the days of the big games several hundred grads would turn up at the Athletic Association's office asking for duplicates for the tickets they had losten route. It was always a difficult matter to sift out the legitimate ticket-holders from the imposters who took advantage of the situation, and the crowning achievement of Terry's memory was in 1915 when out of five hundred applicants he identified five hundred, and caught, red-handed, three imposters...
...scenes or speeches from the window. But the sound of the soldiers' voices is heard and their fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets goes up, at night, for a last and tragic parade. Confused, threatening, alive, these sounds sift into the shadowed room which is the stage; a room in which there has been caught, by some soft and secret charm of writing, by the clever playing of Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney, the intimate mystery of the past...