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...Hanoverians' victory march, but the close score indicates that the men of Osborne Cowles are not unbeatable and that the going will be just a bit rougher from now on. The Elis were able to check Gun Broberg's goalward efforts, but Captain Dudis came through in the pinch...
Students first felt the pinch when they found out that the watchmen meant business. It is believed, however, that two Seniors were tipped off by the authorities and passed along the good word about the new policy...
Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
Taken by and large, Western Union girls are a pretty nice lot. They generally talk through their noses, pronounce "nine" as though it rhymed with "lion," and are unduly inquisitive about whose name the telephone is registered under, but in a pinch they'll always come through...
...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...