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...start of the afternoon the backs and ends polished up blocking and tackling technique, with an added smoothing off of assignments. Then the seconds came on the field and ran through Holy Cross plays in dummy scrimmages with the two first teams. The day ended with a brisk signal drill...
London. Insurance brokers reported they were doing an extraordinarily brisk business in policies on U. S. property protection against the risks of civil disturbances and Unemployment riots...
After a hard and brisk scrimmage with the seconds on Saturday and a day of rest yesterday Harvard's football contingent will swing into action again this afternoon opening its second week of practice. It will also be the second last week of practice before the opening game with Vermont on October...
...fact. Because there was only light work eight members of the squad were excused besides the two more seriously injured men, Talbot and Gildea. Crickard, Moushegian, Batchelder, Graves, Faxon, Finlayson, Hallowell, and Baldwin were all missing from practice because of some minor ailments, probably received in Thursday morning's brisk scrimmage...
...public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen is as varied as their nationalities, and their author tells much. Illustrator Mahlon Blaine helps him to the best of his ability...