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...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
...which is in third place now, will undoubtedly lose to Princeton today. This will give Harvard a record of two meets won and one lost for a percentage of 667, while Dartmouth will have lost two and won two for a percentage of only 500. League Standing Won Lost Pot. Yale 3 0 1,000 Princeton 3 0 1,000 Dartmouth 2 1 .667 Harvard 1 1 .500 Navy 1 3 .250 Columbia 0 3 .000 Pennsylvania...
...successor to late President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who died last November. The choice will be between two candidates although the eleven top parties have repeatedly suggested candidates, reneged on them, nominated them, withdrawn them, made alliances, broken them, made dozens of public and private deals. Now, however, the pot has simmered down and only two strong candidates are left...
...democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches of a liberal education in a few months. Because the colleges must teach the students how to study and how to think before they can start teaching things to think about...
...members of a 5-inch gun's crew fell before a strafing attack. The lone remaining bluejacket took over: three times he grabbed a shell from the fuse pot, placed it in the tray, dashed to the other side of the gun, rammed it home, jumped into the pointer's seat and fired. A terrific bomb blast finally carried him over the side. He was rescued...