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...strength this season. The presence of five sophomores in the starting line-up may also have an unfavorable psychological reaction on the team. The hardest blow of all to the hopes of the new Dartmouth coaching staff however was the long casualty list which resulted from last week's conquest of the Virginia Cavaliers. Not only was Don Erion, veteran tackle star, put out for the season in that encounter but Bill Clark, Harry Deckert, and Eddie Chamberlain were also injured. It is unlikely that Chamberlain will have recovered sufficiently to get into the game, and although there...
...Saroyan's stories are concerned with the mental processes of degenerate, perverted, and artistic human beings. They have as their locale, bawdy houses, barber shops, dingy attic rooms, and cafes. The people he tells us about, so lucidly at times, are barbers, who talk of diplomacy, militarism, and conquest; bums who are too dignified to sell postcards; and youths first experiencing the sexual urge...
Beside the long-sought conquest of the mountain the party accomplished much interesting and valuable scientific work Of particular interest in this respect was the measurement of glacial movement, not only over the course of weeks, but also in hours. Unexpected results were obtained, showing that the glacier suddenly slid forward during the evening around supper time, again about midnight, and once more early in the morning. The average movement of the Crillon glacier, the one studied most in detail, was two inches an hour. Dynamite blasting was also done to determine the depth of the ice by means...
...Tibet is not one of them. While it houses one of the most ancient of the world's extant civilizations, Tibet is so nearly inaccessible that it remains one of the least-visited places on the globe. A trip to Tibet is more in the nature of a conquest than a journey; Author Hedin well names this record of his perilous peregrinations...
...measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China's Nanking Government. Though A Conquest of Tibet had to be translated, it has not yet been published in any other country than the U. S. Other books: Adventures in Tibet, My Life as an Explorer, Jehol: City of Emperors, Across the Gobi Desert...