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Going into the final event, which was the 200 yard free style relay. Tech was leading 31 to 28. The Crimson natators won this race by a fraction of a second, and it looked as though they had thereby taken the entire meet. But the event was awarded to the Tech mermen on the claim that one of the Crimson tankmen had "jumped the gun" mid-way in the relay, thus automatically giving the race, and the meet to the Freshman boilermakers...
...intensity of the dispute and the stubbornness with which the parties stick to their positions in spite of the great emergency that confronts the country, seem out of all proportion to the minute fraction of the individual workers . . . who have not joined the union...
...advantages. It seems to us that the union shop is a fair compromise between the one-sidedness of the closed shop and the viciousness of open shop, company union, or yellow dog contracts. Why the steel companies will not admit the C.I.O. right to force that last diminutive fraction of the workers to join seems strange to us. We do not feel that the five per cent should benefit from the work of the ninety-five...
...stations out of 18 in the East without advertising. The Crimson Network today has an excellent transmission system, limited only by lack of funds. It would be necessary for the Network to accept only enough advertisements to pay its debts and operating expenses, which would amount to only a fraction of its broadcasting time. Already a considerable number of national advertisers are known to be cager to pay for programs on Harvard's station. The only thing that is needed, then, is a green light from the Administration...
...rheumatic heart disease, which smolders in slum districts and overcrowded tenements does not get a fraction of the publicity given to cancer or tuberculosis...