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...brown whipcord pinch-back riding coat...
...players is to drown each other. Rules do not limit the length of time a player may be held under water if he holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly when they sink, none has ever drowned. There are not more than a few thousand athletes in the U.S. capable of playing the game. There...
...only alternative for business men would be to hold onto their stocks and other properties, thus only suffering the taxes on their income. But the first pinch would destroy them utterly...
Still more painful is another aspect of the Dartmouth murals. The recklessness that allowed that college to sink valuable money in the satisfaction of a whim when endowment funds are sharing the pinch of the times is born of a short-sighted policy, to say the least. It probably never occured to university officials that perhaps they would some day want to tear down the library to make way for a large power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive...
...puchero recipe of Chef Juan Nieto* of Manhattan's Spanish Restaurant El Chico: Spanish peas (garbanzos), cabbage, potatoes, one fowl, beef (1 to 2 lb.), ham (cubed, about ½lb.), spanish sausage (chorizos), lare onion, tomato, pinch of saffron, salt & pepper. Boil slowly for two hours. Serve fowl, beef, ham and sausage on separate platter, garnished with vegetables. Serve broth separately...