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...most spectacular match of the day was the contest between B. B. Whitbeck '29 and Bowden of Columbia. The visitor triumphed in two hard fought sets by the score of 10-8, 9-7. Captain Whitbeck was the steadier player and had the edge on Bowden in vollying and coming...
...defense-Hawaii and Panama. As the result of her Allied building program during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main fleet at top speed in dirty weather. The proposed aircraft carriers are limited by the Washington Treaty of 1922 to a maximum of 27,000 tons each, a minimum...
...boxer is knocked out after ten seconds. Actually, Tunney was down 14. Tunney insists that his head was clear after the first few seconds and that he could have risen within the first ten seconds; that, grasping the situation, he waited for the extra respite to arise stronger, steadier...
...girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier but not less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer dazzled his gaze, he returned to his wife, leaving Lilias to pursue her wayward course through a firmament of masculine...
...skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back at his gas station, can function with less discomfort...