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Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines, it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v. private power...
...year old boy whose teeming brain and sturdy hand carries the grown-ups through crisis after crisis. Despite a rather obvious lack of inspiration displayed by the author in mediocre lines and a transparent plot, "Your Loving Son" succeeds in maintaining an ambling pleasant pace with just enough spurt here and there to keep a blase Back-Bayer awake...
Captain Don Donahue was the outstanding Harvard performer, winning both high and low hurdles and garnering 10 points all by himself. Donald Main, who won the mile run by a fifty year margin, and whose spurt won the two-mile relay, starred for Yale...
Business, it was said, was quite up to the level of other years, and had not suffered because of the war. Tradespeople looked for a last minute spurt today. The telegraph office particularly, recalling that last year it had delivered an ice cream soda with four straws, a dog in a red ribbon, two fried eggs, and white mice, looked forward to a busy...
From all indications, the Russian drive is progressing steadily, but it is far from the "rout" that has been filling the dispatches. It has yet to show a spurt at all comparable with the blitzkriegs that so recently went in the other direction. Sometimes the gains hailed by the press as fantastic have been so slight in terms of space as not to show at all on a good sized map. Some gains seem to occur more than once, such as the capture of Kozelsk, which has been announced and cheered twice recently, with two weeks intervening. Reports like these...