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...Conn., June 16--Rough water, which nearly swamped the Freshman and Combination crews in their workouts on the Thames this afternoon, provided the excitement for the day as the Harvard oarsmen brushed up on fundamentals in preparation for the gruelling race with the Eli eight on next Friday. A brisk wind ruffied the surface of the river during both workouts with the result that the University and Jayvee crews stuck to the shore in their morning paddle...
Gales Ferry, Conn., June 6--The Yale first and second University crews headed upstream for two miles in the first workout of the day today. Rowing in the face of a brisk breeze, the Eli eights matched strokes for short distances together under the watchful eye of Coach Leader...
...singled out celestial bodies in the ceiling, told their names. Once the preliminaries were over and Teacher Fox had his 2,700 stars - all those visible from Chicago's side of the earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once...
Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...
...London brisk Alexander Wilkinson Haycock, a Labor M.P. born in Ontario, but now representing an English constituency, was caught up short while addressing the House of Commons in his mother tongue, Canadian. Interrupted peppery Walter James Womersley, Conservative, addressing the Deputy Speaker...