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...Pescosolido '34 is expected to take first place in the 70-yard dash and to vie with J. J. Healy '34 for honors in the shot put. Acting track captain J. J. Hayes '34 is favored to win one or both hurdle races and to give his teammate a close race in the dash. The Freshman 300-yard trio of J. C. Brown '34, W. L. Hasler '34, and J. M. Morse '34 is conceded a good chance to take their event, while F. M. Kirkland '34 J. E. Rogerson '34, and J. B. White '34 are strong...
...vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...attack begins. The opposing generalissimos launch their offensive catapulting skillfully-wrought missives from a secluded operating base. For ten days the bombardment continues. Attacks are met with desperate counter-attacks, flashes of individual heroism rival the instances of insubordination, sallies vie with sorties...
...England. Old ladies should not attempt to vie with ironmasters in their own field, yet last week the Bank of England, for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," prepared to take control of a large part of England's iron and steel industry. Bank Governor Montagu Collet Norman, famed for his keen maneuvers on the complex field of international exchange, prepared for the new role of Steel...
...wishes to learn what ridiculous and hollow charades enthralled Paris of the '305 and '405 may now see the American Laboratory Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired in picturesque costumes designed by Jean Bilibine, painted by Jacob Anchutin and executed by P. & A. Badulin, the members of this earnest little theatre give an incredibly bad account of themselves...