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After giving his cross country squads a brisk work-out on the grass within the Soldiers Field enclosure yesterday afternoon. Coach Farrell picked the tentative list of entries for both the University and Freshman runs tomorrow afternoon. Today he will give all of his harriers a complete rest...
Percy Hammond: " A brisk old-timer with modern frills...
...fiery Welshman in a brisk speech at Bristol said that Poincaré was guilty of " wicked distortion " and that he was "unscrewing the cylinders of carefully distilled hatred, ill-will, suspicion and anger among the nations." The statement he had made did not concern the devastated regions...
...great catchiness of the banana song is to be found partly in the brisk rhythm of the tune, but most in the magic of the phrase, " yes, we have no bananas." The root of the matter here seems to lie in a common grammatical perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have...
This morning the first University crew went down to the Submarine Base and back at an easy paddle. The Freshman had the hardest of the morning work-outs as they covered the same distance at a brisk pace set by Coach Haines in the power launch...