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...latter type of team, with some of the country's ranking amateurs at the top of their lists. This leaves the Varsity definite underdogs at present, although they will be a team that improves with the season. "We need all the practice we can get," Barnaby says, "and a wet season can hold us back a lot. No one is ready to just step out there and play, and without experience no one will be steady enough for good tournament play...
...night last week Mrs. Coombes was sitting in the front room of her dingy first-floor flat, waiting for Robert. He had been released from a training school three weeks before. About 9 o'clock he came in. His trousers were muddy and covered with wet cinders. He explained that he had been splashed by a car. As usual, he refused to say where he had been...
...minutes later in regimented single file, with Champion Zaitseva in the lead, all seven crossed the finish line, 50 yards ahead of the first Frenchwoman. Six other French girls had quit cold in the first 1,000 meters. "The Russians were too formidable," said one. "Anyway it was too wet and I wanted to get home...
...duty, she tried to develop a waterproof outer diaper. She finally devised a "Dri-ette," two pieces of flannel bonded to a waterproof center which eliminated the objections of many mothers to rubber pants. The Dri-ette was not patentable but it did the trick. Babies could get wet, but nobody else would...
...clouds piled in grey threat on threat and a blue darkness settled on the land. In the San Juan valley the darker greens seemed black and the lighter green of grass, a chilling wet blue. 'Sweetheart' came rolling heavily along the highway and the aluminum paint on her gleamed with the evil...