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...Crimson potentialities is due to that intangible something called team morale. Working together, Captain Pren Willetts and Hodder have been trying all season to whip a little esprit de corps into an unusually listless squad, and at last the team the team is snapping out of the Slough of Despond which has handicapped it all year...
...reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...
Four days later Dr. Brennan "burrowed deeply" under the tumor, tied off the arteries again, deprived the tumor of nourishment for three and a quarter hours. Shortly afterward the tumor began to slough off. Normal tissues surrounding the growth, which also had their blood supply cut off, were not injured...
...result of all this reading matter is, if a random sample may be trusted, complete confusion by the time late September rolls around. Into this slough of despond the Crimson is endeavoring, as it has always in the past, to throw a faint ray of light. Unfortunately the Freshman members of the staff are very few and therefore the Crimson must rely upon its poll to get an accurate undergraduate opinion upon the courses normally open to Freshmen. This is the way in which '43 can pass on its heritage to '44, and if by the third page the task...
...patents, belong to him, his wife and their four children in a family partnership. Last year his Detroit plant turned in a net of $872,000 on sales of $3,800,000. His Canadian plant, across the river at Windsor netted $72,000 more, and the British plant (at Slough, England) added...