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Seyoum's Retreat. Meanwhile with splitting headaches and aching limbs members of the Italian tank corps were scouring the mountain sides and valleys searching for outposts and possible enemy ambuscades. The smallest tanks, ''fleas" to the troops, were scarcely shoulder-high. Last week "fleas" scrabbled through gullies, over boulders and along trails that would have stalled a goat. But always ahead of them was chunky, wily Ras Seyoum, onetime Governor of Aduwa, commander of the Ethiopian forces in the North...
...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...
...smallest Freshman Class in many years registered in Memorial Hall yesterday as 981 men began their careers at Harvard. With the addition of 56 transfer students, provisionally classified as Sophomores and Juniors, the total number of new students was only...
...editorial competitions for the CRIMSON next Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock will have ample opportunity to follow the most minute activities of Coach Harlow's teams on Soldiers Field. Seldom has Harvard presented such a wealth of interest as it does this fall when the final and smallest competitions for Juniors and Sophomores for the four boards of the paper get underway. Like Dick Harlow, Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, the new health chief at the Hygiene Building, is giving the college a new deal in medicine...
Eight months after the stockmarket crash of 1929, the first American Austin scooted out of a factory at Butler, Pa. Copied from the immensely popular British Austin, it was 28 inches shorter than the smallest standard car, came up to a man's chin, cost $445 f. o. b. Butler. It ran 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, achieved a speed of 50 m. p. h. Two strong men could lift it into any 10-ft. parking space...