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Evidently Harvard and Yale reached their peaks in last week's dual meet, for while the Crimson participators turned in a worse than average performance to gain 11th place in the team scoring Yale could muster only four and a half more for eighth place. Pitt and Columbia, the two favorites, battled it out to the last event, from the results of which Pitt became the champion by half a point...
...plebiscite, they would be voting to disenfranchise themselves; if they voted No, they would be voting against freedom for the Philippines. Setting up a loud clamor, they finally got a clause inserted that would restore suffrage to literate women of 21 or over if they could muster 300,000 affirmative votes at a plebiscite within two years after the Constitution was adopted...
...that is expected of him is to be irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...
What arguments President Roosevelt would muster in two-syllable words for that important appeal were last week foreshadowed by an interview he gave. Arthur Krock, No. 1 Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was admitted to the Presidential presence and given the benefit of a pontifical discussion of the issue by the man most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left...
...believe it is loose-flying. In fact the Cantabs seem suddenly to have disappeared with all their lucre; vanished in the manner of Handsome Dan. The latest and best odds we could muster were three to two, which is after all a fifty percent price rise. Perhaps the men from Lowell and Dunster Houses are getting an attack of the jitters, or maybe their previous offer was just one of those Carnival necromances...