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...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
...four lone bottles credited to Princeton show that President Dodds' request must have had some effect. No other team this fall, or for many years, has ever left such a small and shoddy monument to its entertainment by fair Harvard, as Princeton's two pint botties and the robust quart. Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth all left approximately twenty-five times as many dead men, that is, about 100. In all of these games Harvard's consumption was apparently far below what greeted the Tiger, for the arrival of the Nassau delegation upped the Crimson empties by about fifty per cent...
Andover scored in the first period and again in the third on a penalty kick. Aldy Howe tallied the lone Crimson goal in the final quarter...
...almost black and the sunlight so dazzling that it hurts to look down, a big Bristol monoplane wheeled slowly last week, dragged by its straining, special Pegasus engine. Presently, satisfied that he had broken the world's airplane altitude record and could get no higher, the lone pilot in the enclosed cockpit started down. Near exhaustion from the height, he began getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit...
...this case the well-lubricated and almost irresistible power of the amalgamated gentlemen swings into action against a rich English Jew, accepted by society for his money. This lonely individual, sympathetically and brilliantly played by Basil Rathbone, incurs the united wrath by accusing a ne'erdo-well army captain of having stolen from him a thousand pounds. Having detected the wastrel's guilt with that incredible acumen found only in investigators who have their authors on their side, he fights a lone and losing battle for his money, even though at least one of the captain's friends, the most...