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...Step on the gas!" was Sergeant Honda's only thought in his panic. The Imperial motorcade got so far ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...
...inhabitanis of Lowell House were pleasantly surprised when five of Cambridge's most modern fire engines congregated in front of the Owl Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...
...three men reached the semi-finals of the Intercollegiate Boxing Championship last year. Among the promising Sophomores are Peter B. Olney, captain of last year's Freshman team, Edgar S. Davis, winner of the University Championship last year, James P. Kostarolos, Frederick B. Taylor, Jr. and Garrow T. Gear, Jr., all undefeated last year...
...Mollisons had landed at Karachi to refuel, had taken off only to be forced back ten minutes later with landing-gear trouble. Seven hours behind the leader was Roscoe Turner. At Bagdad he became confused, made a down-wind landing, nearly cracked up. Stuck in Paris was Captain Stack with his complete newsreel of the flight's start...
...college education. "Well," was his earnest comment, "I know of nothing that is of more value to an individual in the field of politics or any other field than a college education, and it is most unfortunate that our social and economic system is so out of gear that in proportion to the number there are more A.B. college men out of work all the time than there are laborers...