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...second period, Marshall cleverly stick-handled his way to the mouth of the net, slipping the puck past the Crimson goalie a fraction of a second after Referee Stewart's whistle had blown for a penalty. With two Harvard players in the penalty box, the Toronto skaters launched a fierce but fruitless attack on the University fort, narrowly missing several potential tallies. In the closing minute of the period, S. L. Batchelder '31 twice weaved his way the length of the arena for shots at the Canadian cage...
...Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
Such cases deal with only a small fraction of the courses in the college, and those few outside the intended scope of the innovation. There are more fundamental problems that will have to be met and at least a beginning made towards overcoming during this second year. The professor must cover his field and still allow the student time for some independent work, according to one of the avowed objects of the plan. A balance will have to be found between the necessity of testing the work done in the examinations following and the granting of liberty to each...
...scorning merger denials, made hasty calculations. Assets of International Nickel total $75,000,000. Together with the Mond company's assets of $40,000,000, the new international nickel trust would be worth between $115,000,000 and $125,000,000. It would control all but a small fraction of the nickel supply of the world. To close the deal, speculators foresaw a split-up of International Nickel common stock, followed by an exchange of both International and Mond stock for shares in the new trust. Trading in securities of both companies, the Toronto Stock Exchange went through...
Governor Byrd's widest claim to fame is his brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...