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...American College of Surgeons, meeting in Washington last week, grew so indignant about Prohibition,* that they delayed for a day listening to Dr. Charles Horace Mayo tell how to stave off death...
...business is to ask questions, not to answer them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
...mother paced the beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato was carried to her feet by the surf. In the lift of one wave she thought she saw her son, lying on his side with arms beseeching; but the vision passed as the wave fell in a dull smother. The next wave was empty. Mrs. Ravmitzky watched...
...Crimson attack got under way in the first inning when Hendy started the game by walking Burns and Jones, Coach Jack Coombs thereupon retired him in favor of Goeltz in an effort to stave off a run. But Zarakov followed with a neatly placed sacrifice advancing the men to second and third. After Burns was nipped at the plate on Todd's grounder Tobir, who replaced Lord in the lineup at first base in a last minute shift, singled cleanly and Jones scored with the just...
...Tigers substituted 11 men in a vain effort to stave off defeat at the hands of Queens college last week. Princeton has nearly two complete teams of veterans who faced the University last year and will probably rush in fresh players at every opportunity tonight. In Zarakov, Harding, and Scott, the Crimson is also well supplied with a reserve forward line of high caliber, and Clark, whose hard body checking against Toronto was largely responsible for the low score will be ready to enter the fray at either Coady or Pratt's post on the defense. Captain Cumings, whose phenomenal...