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...Tiger players feel that tomorrow is the day when Princeton should at last string scoring form which it has failed to attain in its opening four encounters. Only against Penn have the Tigers evidenced some of the offensive which they pack on paper, and yet against Penn, lack of scoring punch handed Princeton its second defeat in 31 games. This despite the fact that the Crisler men outgained the Quakers by a wide margin...
...Walker County Governor Graves dispatched his Superintendent of Education, his Commissioner of Labor, and lean Lawrence Lee, his own labor expert and onetime law partner. Sputtered the Governor: "These children shall not be crucified to attain any end, whatsoever. . . . And that's saying...
...line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...
Restlessness and sleeplessness being precisely what doctors try to attain in treating cases of mid-day drowsiness, called narcolepsy, a few doctors tried benzedrine solutions as remedy, found that narcoleptics became not only alert, but cheerful and energetic...
Newest Soviet word to be endowed with pointed meaning is "culture." To attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...