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...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...
...building on the Chicago River. In place of dinginess there is magnificence. Instead of one elevator there are 15; instead of five stories there are 25. A Board of Directors room on the sixth floor is dedicated to the late great Victor Fremont Lawson. Its fine dark panels were taken from his Lake Shore Drive residence, so that the Daily News should have a lasting memory of its onetime chief...
...feel the Front in our blood. Shells whistle, our senses sharpen. We feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...
James Lawrence '29 set a beat of 30 and 31 as the Crimson sweepswingers stroked over the dark river. There was no wind to disturb the surface of the Thames, but a slight tide aided the shell. With a half mile to go, the stroke was raised to 38 for the final sprint. A tug and some barges loomed through the darkness and for the last mile the coxswain was kept busy avoiding the river traffic...
...Arts gowns may do so at the Coop for $2.75, but must give the Coop ten days notice of their intention. It is desirable that all who intend to receive their degrees in person shall provide themselves with gowns, and it is requested that none appear except in dark clothes...