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...soon creating difficulties among the bamboo stalks, for it is almost impossible for a sincerely pious Hindu to be firm with the cow, a sacred animal. Finally bamboo cages were built in which the cows were gently confined. Meanwhile whips were cracking over bullocks as these nonsacred males helped drag bamboo and build Congress City...
...task of demolishing a husky, tall section of wall. It is part of the once proud structure opposite Phillips Brooks House, and towering fragment of loose bricks as it is, it stands stark and alone, the very last piece of Hemenway's walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...
...short sales "below'' the last price, SEC's action was not on its face of great importance. * More significant was SEC's remark that since the exchange's rule had not been effective, SEC would have to take over. Having thus prepared for a drag-out scrap Bill Douglas was surprised and pleased by the new exchange proposal. The Conway committee was made up of three exchange members, two nonmember partners and four outsiders, of whom one was New Dealer Adolf A. Berle Jr. and another, Publisher Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal...
...Winthrop House Dance Committee has engaged Bunny Berigan and his orchestra for their annual Winter Formal Dance on Friday, February 18. The prices, according to McCrae H. Cobb '39, Chairman of the Dance Committee, will be $3.50 drag and $2.00 stag. The affair will be strictly formal and will last from 10.00 to 2.30 o'clock. Dinner reservations should be made in advance to secure accommodation, as admission will be limited to 206 couples...
...Freshman lineup showed Eider, at number 1, Drag, at number 2, and W. Stablear at back...