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Stanford, with one of the speediest backfields on the Coast, looked better than it had looked for a long time. Nevertheless Southern California, which had held its perch throughout 27 games, was 2-to-1 favorite when the teams trotted into the field at Los Angeles last week. Of the 90,000 who witnessed this Humpty's fall, probably none enjoyed it more than Stanford's oldtime football manager, Herbert Clark Hoover...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...
Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called "Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that...
Fish, being cold-blooded animals, decompose rapidly after removal from their watery homes. To be transported, they must be frozen. Of several fish-freezing methods, the Taylor Process is speediest. The fish are docked, bathed, chopped up, unedible portions being removed and fillets (steaks) left. Then the fillets are put on a flat aluminum plate, on which they travel slowly through the freezing room, like amusement park visitors riding on a scenic railway. Interesting, too, is the scenery, as the walls and ceiling are covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium...
...eight consecutive victories the Harvard team has caged 35 goals. W. B. Wood '32 and F. R. Stubbs Jr. '32 form a brilliant passing pair, with Stubbs scoring consistently on fast, rising shots Potter Palmer '32, the speediest member of the sextet, and Captain C. C. Cunningham '32 are both expert body-checkers who have broken up many determined assaults on their territory. C. D. Draper '32 has allowed only three shots to get past him into the Harvard goal