Word: plugging
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...expected, the Crimson fencers overwhelmed a weak Boston University team last night by a score of 33 to 4. "Pasty" Pastorious was the spark-plug of the team...
Well aware were the British of this leak in their blockade. To plug it, they had stopped U. S. ships on the high seas (the same sort of thing that brought on the War of 1812), had seized and opened U. S. mails (a criminal offense). They had even confiscated a ton of air mail from the American Clipper as it landed in Bermuda. Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim...
...fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...
...provide full State aid for the coming year. But the schools were still far from port. Although they had cut expenses by some $6,900,000, there was still a $1,400,000 hole in their current year's budget which they did not know how to plug. Only thing that could keep their ship afloat, the School Board warned, was a deficiency appropriation...
...second base a genuine battle royal seems to be in the offing, with Sam Merrill, Bud Finegan, and Jimmy Lynch as the contenders. Artie Johns' graduation leaves a big hole to plug at the keystone sack, and one of these boys will have to fill the bill. Over at third, Sophomore Gil Whittemore and former Jayvee Cliff Helman will be struggling to fill the gap left by Dick Grondahl's departure. Another infield hopeful is Tom Shrewsbury...