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...national institution. How hard it would be to make these economies jibe is shown by France's wine industry, which traditionally depended on exporting its luxury products to Britain. Austeritarian Britain can no longer afford them. Some Britons coldly suggest that the French would do better to pull up some of their vines and plant potatoes instead...
...silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...pull not down the steeple In your monied street...
Lowell followed its usual give-them-a-big-lead-and-then-pull-the string procedure with Kirkland. They played a casual first period, shooting seldom and with little accuracy, guarding lackadaisically, while the Deacons amassed a seemingly unbeatable lead of 14 points, 20 to 6, on the pivot shots and rebounds of Pat McCormick and the field work and set shooting of John Pankey...
Harvard stayed ahead throughout the entire first period, but it took Cornell just five minutes of the second half to pull to a 29 to 28 lead, and then to 33 to 28, mostly on the work of Rose who dropped two set shots and tapped in another. Hold scoreless for the first half, Rose scored ten points in the second...