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...John's 10-yard line, resulted in the losers' only score, the St. John's quarterback running 90 yards for a touchdown after recovering the wet ball. Crowley's kicking and Kittredge's end runs were the cheering spots of the loosely-played game from a Holy Cross standpoint...
This practice, it seems to me, is wholly unnecessary, from your standpoint, and from that of the Southerner, assumes almost nauseating proportions. Furthermore, its protraction, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be, as it appears, your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
...south, the long convex side of the sausage, the French went into action, and there the fat was hottest and the frying was fiercest. After a heavy artillery barrage, the advance was begun. The trouble from the French standpoint was that they were advancing squarely towards the mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began...
...better terms. But M. Caillaux very much wanted to know where he stood with Britain before he undertook to settle definitely with the U. S. For, although the U. S. will not admit any connection between French debts to Britain and the U. S., yet from the French standpoint it was necessary to know how much one must pay the first debtor in order to know how much there would be left to pay the other. The London agreement (see COMMONWEALTH) for equal treatment for the U. S. and Britain settled that uncertainty...
...situation contains any moral, it seems to be that using the popular slogan of "price-stabilization" to cover prices which from an economic standpoint are too high, is a poor policy to follow in the oil business. Once the United States oil industry was practically a monopoly and could do about as it pleased in the prices. That, however, was several years...