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...third week, the elements grew angry at the indifference to their efforts displayed by the people of those countries. To give effect to their fury, they blew rain and hail at 75 miles an hour, incited the seas to insurrection, and in general created the worst storm in 30 years...
...story goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
...hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
...graduate committees approved by the athletic board are the track, hockey, and baseball bodies. The regular members of the track committee are W. A. Barron '14, chairman, W. J. Bingham '16, R. C. Floyd '11, H. S. Grew '24, and A. T. Lyman '16. The associate members of this committee are Vinton Chapin '23, H. L. Clark '87, and C. G. Krogness...
...outlook is more than usually confused. In most lines, the trend is undoubtedly toward improvement, particularly in the very barometric steel industry. Nevertheless, the lesson of the first quarters of 1923 and 1924 are still fresh in mind. In both cases, prices rose with increased demand and prospects grew rosy. Manufacturers, however, opened up and speedily unloaded goods on the market in such quantity that prices fell again and production languished...