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...Princeton Freshmen last Saturday, and a week of drill in which Coach Osbourn has had his men pointing for the Crimson encounter. R. B. Parker is the leading figure of the Blue backfield having made three touchdowns in the Princeton game last week, and helping the team to pile up its 22 to 0 score...
...jack from now on. ... And when I get a nice big pile I'm going to buy me a newspaper somewhere-and have some...
...north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell. A crew of 18, gambling that she would ride the storm, stayed aboard...
...times, especially in his earlier years, his directness of speech caused needless irritation and may well have cost him friends. A rich gentleman whose estate bordered the property of the College complained to him of a high pile of wood or lumber close to the line that divided the estates. 'I told him,' said the President, many years later, 'that if he objected to the College's woodpile, the College' would gladly buy his land. That,' the President added, 'was a bad break...
...electric railway transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the electrical industry. Last week the recipient was the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Electric railway men consider it the most important accomplishment of the decade. And only four years ago it was a "pile of junk." That was before Samuel Insull took it over...