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...very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...
...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...
...around the Yale Bowl to win a smashing, heart-breaking game 14-10. The Bulldog scored suddenly in the first four minutes and again in the second period. From then on he was savagely on the defensive; turning back in the final period three separate desperate lunges on the threshold Of his own goal. In the last three minutes the game was apparently lost when a forward pass floated over the Bulldog's goal into enemy arms. But the play was not allowed as the enemy was out of the end zone. Thus the Bulldog of Georgia beat...
...venture across the threshold of a door will be to incur the wrath of the guardians of the law. Openly to defy the will of Dictator Kemal will be to invite arrest. Only officials with special passes, passengers and crews on steamers and express trains will be allowed freedom of movement...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...