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...good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused the peace. Last week he went out again with a sling shot. He shot a sinker attached to a fishing line over the high tension wires. Then he tied scissors to the end of the line, pulled on the sinker until the scissors slid into place across the wires, short-circuiting the whole Scotch Plains system and costing the company a little more...
...foregoing statements are not only false, but like half-truths are infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence...
After a few weeks passed listening to the ridicule of every standard a man of college age has ever had or heard of, the student generally goes one of two ways. He many swallow Mr. Babbitt, hook, line and sinker, surrender any ideas he had of writing poetry himself some day, and become a humanist and nuisance to his friends. Of all mistakes, none is more egregious than the undergraduate humanist...
...proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...
...normal senses would go down hook, line, and sinker on Harvard or Yale to win the November 23 classic. Too many things can happen before then. Head Coach Horween of Harvard has a job on his hands to lay his plans for a successful assault against Holy Cross next Saturday, without jeopardizing the prospects against Yale, but Harvard has been through four hard-fought games on the last four Saturdays and there is less of a mental strain this week for the Crimson than there is for Yale in pointing for its traditional clash with Princeton. One reason for this...