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Measurements and cheeks on a random group of volunteers are at present being undertaken, in order to discover what improvement they make during the six-week period of the compulsory training program. Coach, Tom Boles' stalwart oarsmen are regarded by the laboratory on the basis of more than 1000 different tests, as the ideal men of brawn at Harvard...
...Newest British sport, much indulged in by girls attached to the various fighting services, is Scramball, the maidenly counterpart of rugby, from which the scrum (equivalent of U.S. football line play) and tackling are eliminated. When a player with the ball is touched, she must part with it instantly. Stalwart damsels play in service sweaters and short sports skirts...
...confidential way, wanted to tell us that the Japs were a menace. Did he ever question Coughlin about his well-organized attempt to stir up racial hatred and internal dissension --undoubtedly the best attempt in the last 75 years? No. Instead he shared platforms with many of Coughlin's stalwart fascist supporters. Did he ever come out with his promised exposure of a plot by Italian Fascists? Never, but he excused himself nobly with the trite phrase that it might "irritate the Italian government." What happened to all the evidence he had on a "huge organization to promote Nazi ideology...
...made professor of art at Iowa State University. Working slowly and painstakingly (he averaged only three or four paintings a year), Grant Wood followed up his first success with a whole series of similarly lucid, polished and quaintly literal canvases. Studying the grim, stalwart Iowa farmers and their neatly fenced fields, Grant Wood got what he called the "decorative quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail...
...plans about how to run the Crimson's streak over its Blue rivals to seven straight next June. Graduation has accounted for three of last year's undefeated eight, and while Uncle Sam has skipped over the oarsmen, the Harvard Medical School has claimed the services of Fred Herter, stalwart heavyweight who rowed on the Varsity the first half of last year...