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...budgeted until 1929, a fund from which it may be drawn was proposed, last week, by Chancellor Churchill as a feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year "and more later." The immediate result was that last week...
...advertisers in the Harvard Lampoon, when questioned by reporters regarding the game, said: "I see no reason for the odds being 5 to 1 on the Harvards, for in a game like this it is always possible for the metrical breaks to decide victory. It looks like a swell clash. May the best team...
...religious tendencies at Harvard it must, however, be borne in mind that a large number of the students prefer to establish themselves in one or another of the many churches in the vicinity, or are engaged in some other religious activities Sunday morning. Of course these students do not swell the ranks of the chapel-goers...
...front of the aristocratic house is the lanky giant, now a policeman. War arrives; the giant takes the boy to war; they return, the young couple marry; and Mother Machree and Bozo do also. For no matter what happens this little group of abused Irish stick together to swell the jubilation at the box office...
Those Juniors who have just been elected represent the highest eighth of their class. They swell the total undergraduate membership of the chapter to 17, the other 11 being Seniors...