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...were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...
Strengthened by the back-bone of last year's first team, the Varsity squash squad anticipates a successful 1933-34 season, a season which, following last winter's policy, will include in addition to the Massachusetts Squash-Racquets League series, matches with M.I.T., Princeton, Yale, and possibly Dartmouth...
...doors of the President's office to let in the biggest jam that had attended any Roosevelt press conference. Some of the last men in had to be pushed forward by guards. The President leaned back in his desk chair, puffing at a cigaret in a yellow bone holder. "All in?" he cheerfully inquired. "Then shut the doors, and nobody leaves until the conference is over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to those close to the desk...
...knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic...
...more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following account is only the first page of ten, is studded with references to 38 bone fide cases in massive Langdell tomes...