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During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
Harvard placed third in the Lake Placid annual college ski week competition, which ended Saturday with the jump on the 30-meter hill at Intervale...
...thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan's thoroughfares up to 1900 are so placid they give the present-day spectator the impression they were taken on Sunday. Then the 20th Century came in and up shot skyscrapers, out roared automobiles...
Coach Norwood Cox and eight Crimson skiers will trek north to Lake Placid on December 26 for the annual intercollegiate meet scheduled for December 30 to January 1. Others among the twelve colleges entered are Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, and Williams. Heading the Crimson contingent will be Captain David Emerson '38, winner last year at the Bartlett Carnival and again at the Appalachian Club Race. Peter T. Brooks '38 is the other veteran making the trip. John Pierpont '39, Frederick R. Witherby '40, T. Robert Skinner '38, David S. Stacey '40, James Laughlin, 4th, ocC., and William H. Hinton...
...convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...