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Twenty years ago famed Violinist Jan Kubelik told U. S. newsmen: "I have made more than $1,000,000 with my violin. I have this, and a wife and five beautiful children. And now, as far as the strenuous American life is concerned, I am done up with it. ... The amassing of a fortune, the gaining of fame is not all." With his million dollars Jan Kubelik bought a large estate in Hungary. Last week in Vienna he appeared in bankruptcy court, offered to settle his $125,000 liabilities at 35? on the dollar, blamed his plight...
Queried as to how murder victims were able to put up such strenuous resistance to their attackers on some occasions, Dr. Magrath revealed that it is difficult to kill a person instantly by a blow on the head unless administered with a weapon capable of actually damaging the brain. A carpenters hammer, he pointed out, could not be classed as a "dangerous weapon" although a stonecutter's maul is "a different matter...
Opening the season for fielding practice, over 50 candidates for the University team reported yesterday afternoon in the Briggs Cage to Coach F. G. Mitchell for two hours of strenuous batting and fielding...
...Strenuous Workouts...
Meeting Andover in their second game in two days, the Freshman hockey team will continue its strenuous late winter schedule. The examination period interrupted a streak of remarkably hard and fast skating which put the St. Marks and Noble and Greenought sextets to route with overwhelming scores, and it is expected that the first-year men will continue to display their usual brand of hockey starting with today's contest...