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Courageously turning a deaf ear to rabid nationalists, and ignoring the outlawed Communists who cry out against Yankee imperialism, he pointed to the need for U.S. dollars to put Brazil's economic machine in high gear. He wanted laws that would open up the country to profitable exploitation by foreign capital...
Although Yale's set artist, Peacock, seems to have shifted into high gear, getting 20 points against Trinity Wednesday night, the Varsity high command feels the Elis' can't possibly equal last Saturday's one-out-of-two shot percentage. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD YALE Hauptfuhrer rf Lavelli Rockwell lf Nadherny Prior c Joyce Gannon rg Redden Brady or Crosby lg Peacock
...died, Constable Edgar mumbled a name. Scotland Yard went into high gear: it cancelled all leaves, issued extraordinary (and temporary) permission for sleuths to carry guns. Four days later, the Yard's men tracked down suspected Burglar Donald George Thomas in a boardinghouse, arrested him for the murder of Constable Edgar...
...Chamber of Commerce of Omak, Wash. (pop. 3,000), refused to sponsor the Okanogan County preliminaries for this gear's Miss America beauty contest when it learned that, under the terms of the franchise, only white girls could compete. One-third of Omak lies in the Colville Indian reservation...
Radcliffe students from cities as flat as Philadelphia came to Cambridge this year equipped with all the gear to take to the hills. She swelled a delegation which already included New Englanders like Alice Sizer '50, Nina Emerson '50, and Anne Richard '49, all experts and European-born veterans like Maja Weisl '50 of Prague, Czechoslovakia, who took up the sport when she was five...