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...points in two minutes as snippy Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert smiled on the bench, confident that his scouting in Manhattan the week before had uncovered N. Y. U.'s weaknesses. His smile was premature. Gradually gaining momentum, N. Y. U. bunched up on their opponents, slowly whittled the gap between them. At halftime, they were six points behind. Then they opened up. Netting the ball from every angle on the floor, they tied the count, pushed ahead. With four minutes left, they had a margin of 11 points. Purdue woke up. Led by Captain Bob Kessler, crack left-handed...
...cars, and Railway Age estimated a 1935 production of only 100 locomotives. To this traders retorted that rail equipment stocks were still underpriced, that even a small equipment expenditure by a railroad would be big income for an equipment company. No other group of securities offered such an extraordinary gap between depression lows and prosperity highs...
With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...
Ohio State scored two touchdowns in the first half: one when Antenucci intercepted a pass and threw a lateral to Boucher who ran 70 yd. down the sideline; another when Williams squirmed through a gap between end and tackle...
...disease. The outlay of current information, which is distinctly humbled by that in the Union and many House Common Rooms, demands a complete and intelligent reorganization. Until the officials realize that things are happening today as surely as they happened a hundred years ago, there will be a large gap in Widener's dissemination of knowledge...