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...strive as an underling of the Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...whence he was graduated in 1888, strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much of their time while at Exeter. His reminiscing over, Mr. Lamont went...
...does well against the Jumbos he may get a chance in the Yale series since neither Ticknor or Page has shown any great success of late. Andruszkiewicz, who did not lose a game until last week, will do the pitching for Tufts tomorrow. The Medford nine has a crack team this season and will give the Crimson a good stiff test prior to the climatic series with the Elis...
...time out of Fargo, N. Dak. one stormy afternoon last week pulled the Empire Builder, Great Northern Railway's crack Seattle-to-Chicago limited train. It flashed across the State line, roared through Moorhead, Minn., headed for St. Paul across the prairie at 50 m.p.h. At the throttle was Engineer B. E. McKee. Behind him in the string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing...
...reason to believe that Michigan would not win again at Evanston last week. Illinois' ace hurdler, Lee Sentman, was likely to be beaten by Jack Keller of Ohio State; Michigan had Eddie Tolan, who holds the official world's record for the 100-yard dash, and a crack one-mile relay team. In the first events, run off on a raw dark afternoon. Michigan piled up what looked like a safe lead till Sentman, equaling the world's record (14.4 sec.), beat Keller in the 120-yd. high hurdles...