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...scores came on less exciting plays, one on a penalty shot that the goalie missed and the other on a sharp blast by Yalie captain Joe Upton. But the Eli defense was tight enough to make the game exciting and to gain the final tie score...
...RICHARD UPTON Fort Worth...
Perhaps the most successful job of muckraking was Upton Sinclair's searing novel, The Jungle, which contained among other things an indictment of the meatpacking industry that was grotesque but effective: "Here came also cattle which had been fed on 'whiskey-malt,' the refuse of the breweries, and had become what the men called 'steerly'-which means covered with boils that were full of matter. It was a nasty job killing these, for when you plunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foulsmelling stuff into your face." The Jungle came...
...sought to alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...
Both teams were scoreless halfway in the fourth period until Andover forward Bob Upton headed the ball to the Harvard nets to give his team a 1-0 lead. But with three minutes remaining Crimson left half Larry Coburn scored on a penalty kick to tie the game...