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Winning five races by safe margins, the University runners administered a complete whitewash to a strong M. I. T. team in the relay meet at Soldiers' Field Saturday. At the same time, the Freshmen, after dropping the sprint relay, took the remaining three events from the yearling Engineers with the same ease. The Freshman medley relay failed to materialize...
...growth, rampage and decline of the Borgian Bull? in the fields of Renaissance Italy? a biography that for color, excitement and human interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just one cup of poison after another. But, nevertheless, as Sabatini describes it, it seems thrilling enough to shake the nerves...
...statement is distinctly necessary. In perfection of photographs and make-up, the record of this year's book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; but--the drawings are nothing less than horrible--with one or two exceptions, and no amount of verbal whitewash would suffice to hide the fact. Such frankness may not be pleasant, but it is at least justified by the facts...
...there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Americans, "who never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. And now to these awful chapters must be added the Haitian chapter--a scandal which the mendacious mal-administrator of the Navy Department is now trying to whitewash by appointing his own investigators to investigate his own record after he has been "caught with the goods" and "smoked out." It must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth...
...Freshmen Whitewash Opponents...