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...last week, was the midyear statement of American Locomotive Co., made public by Chairman William Hartman Woodin, recent Smith convert. Net profits for the first six months of 1928 were $1,502,702, as against $2,485,784 in 1927. "Locomotive buying," said Chairman Woodin, "is at a low ebb...
...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...
...light following wind and an ebb tide made conditions for the trial very favorable. It was the second row over the course for the Harvard crew, but the first one in which the eight did more than paddle. The time was 14 seconds faster than the clocking turned in by the Yale eight day before yesterday...
...centuries full of a familiar ebb and change, and, like all, exciting and beautiful...
...story of the Harvard-Yale football series is the tale of the ebb and flood of two great tides of victory, broken only by occasional pauses. From 1876 to 1908, Yale was riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...