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...their first 1936 league meeting at Nassau Harvard defeated the Tigers 9, 2, with Ingalls allowing six hits. Today the burly Sophomore will be after his own fifth straight win and the Crimson's seventh straight victory, and tenth consecutive conquest of Princeton since...
...been based on the fond belief that Benito Mussolini was bluffing. Seven months of diplomatic failures had brought Stanley Baldwin to the realization that Benito Mussolini was not bluffing. He sympathized wholeheartedly with young Mr. Eden's idealistic point of view. Every wise Briton was aware that Italian conquest of Ethiopia, now at hand, might easily mean the end of British domination in the Mediterranean and the beginning of a serious rebellion in Egypt. But for the time being there was nothing to do about...
...society, turned his pen to Tory pamphleteering, got himself favorably known by the right people, finally stood for Parliament. He was four times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta who was his mistress for two years. He broke with her at last because she would not understand that the Career came first...
...Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...
...vital British interests exist in Ethiopia or its neighborhood sufficient to oblige His Majesty's Government to resist a conquest of Ethiopia by Italy. Italian control over Ethiopia would from some viewpoints be advantageous for Britain. . . . From certain other viewpoints it would not. Speaking in a general sense, as far as local British interests are concerned, it is a matter of indifference whether Ethiopia remains independent or is absorbed by Italy...