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...have accomplished the feat. Only 42 scullers' names have been placed on the Thirty-Minute club board at Weld since the club was begun in 1940 by Blake Dennison, Boat House sculling coach. Only three scullers have made the club this season. And along with the numerous attempts to skim the four-mile distance in the required time, there have been many near misses...
Pride in one's House, in its teams, dances, and the representative group of students who make it up, is a healthy thing. But it must necessarily preclude the desire to skim off the cream of the Freshman Class for one's own House. For, far more important than any one House is the House System, which allows students in the College all the virtues and none of the vices of fraternities. Unless each House can remain representative, socially, intellectually, and athletically, the House System is headed for decay...
...African word meaning red boy), Capetown's Dr. John F. Brock reported in Manhattan. Fed mainly on manioc gruel, they are stunted and their skin and hair lose pigment, making them look reddish or grey. For short-term relief, U.N. agencies are supplying thousands of tons of dried skim milk, rich in protein. But in the long run, said Dr. Brock, these primitive peoples must be taught to feed their children beans, which they can raise...
Modern margarine is made from refined vegetable oils (principally soybean and cottonseed oils) grown on American farms, plus cultured skim milk and minor ingredients...
...been mounted beneath the fuselage of a sleek new fighter with no flotation gear at all. In takeoffs, the fighter moves out from shallow water, its ski sliding along the bottom. As soon as it picks up speed and the ski cuts to the surface, the plane can skim over deep water for its take-off run. Once in the air, the hydro-ski can be retracted. After touching down, the pilot has to taxi fast enough for his plane to stay on the surface until he is close to beach or landing ramp...