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...problem of depression in industry is one that Congress cannot control by law-making. All it hopes to do is to stave off ruin for the farmers who have fared worse than the rest of the country. It behooves the manufacturer and business men to be broad-minded enough to accept what is obviously class legislation framed to meet the unusual conditions of a short period...
...first corner ahead of Paine. Paine went ahead before the lap was ended, but O'Connell soon tore by him and was twenty yards to the good at the start of the final relay. D. J. Duggan '20 ran a steady, well-planned race which just managed to stave off Rose's sprint on the third lap. He broke the tape 15 yards ahead of the B. A. A. runner...
...papers are traditionally idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this great national movement and let others do the fighting while it takes in the shekels which the brewers are so lavishly expending to stave off the evil...
Another society of a somewhat different sort is described in an article by F. T. Spaulding '17 on the notorious "Med. Fac.", traces of whose buffoonery and barrel-stave humor, unfortunately still persist...
...whole explanation of the defeat is to be obtained from a comparison of the two elevens as teams. As individuals, the Harvard players did all that was possible to be done to stave off the disaster, but they did not work together as did the Yale men. In their respective positions, the Harvard men left little to be desired, but they had not learned to assist one-another. When the ball was to be advanced, it was the man who carried it that did most of the work, and though there were gains, some of them of considerable length, they...