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Ahead 1 to 0 at the half, the Varsity soccer team faltered in the second half and allowed a fighting eleven from the University of Connecticut to pull out a 2 to 1 victory last Saturday at the Business School Field. The Crimson dominated the play for most of the game, but an orthodox eleven-man defense effectively squashed must of the Varsity's scoring chances...
...warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
Replied Marcus Goodrich: "If that son of a gun comes up here, I'll pull an old Latin custom on him-bolt the windows and lock in the women. That's what he did to me in Mexico...
...coal to produce steel to produce coal to produce steel, still no incentive or hope for miners who daily see Allied reparations teams earmarking plants for removal. The situation in the Ruhr just doesn't change and it can't change any more than a man can pull himself up by his own bootstraps, particularly if you take away the bootstraps...
...pronouncement,by a governor of the Federal Reserve, which administers Regulation W under Executive Order, could have been more pleasing to the Morris Planners, whose prime business is consumer loans. But how much weight did affable Jake Vardaman pull on the board...