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...going to be another uphill struggle, for as Bolles himself says: "If we don't get out on the water until March 15th, the usual time for the breakup of the ice, we will have to make up for the difference in rowing time with a pile of inside work. To get out sooner would give us a better chance against Princeton...
...Crimson allowed the Whips a four-goal handicap but practically wiped it out by the end of the second chukker. In the third they went on to pile up the points which proved the margin of victory. Alan Winmill scored four goals for the Crimson and Fred Ayer, two. Harvey was high scorer for Wilkes-Barre with six goals...
This morning the Vagabond will get up at the crack of dawn to look at the pile of maps on his desk, and at nine o'clock will go to the New Lecture Hall to take his examination in History...
...Hastings, Mich., scorning current attempts to pile thousands of matches on top of beer bottles as "mere child's play" (TIME, Dec. 28), Newsboy Elmer ("Monk") White inserted a match in a cork, stood the match up on a table, laid two yardsticks at right angles on the cork, balanced 36 beer bottles on the yardsticks...
...guess. Natives were still busy in Africa last week harvesting the pods of the cacao tree. Shaped like a football and nearly as big, the yellow or red pods are tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads" of cocoa beans on a day's trek from plantation to trading...