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...there is anything like the saving of energy that they advertise, nor do I think they'll ever do a two mile course 25 lengths faster than they do now. The most important of these inventions is the sliding oar lock which is supposed to give an absolutely straight pull through. The idea is undoubtedly sound, but it is not likely to be widely adopted. The other inventions in the pneumatic seats and moving footrests mean little...
...front line stopped. The ranks behind rippled and deepened. Soon the street was filled with a discolored tide that washed up over the gutters, into doorways and alleys, lapping uneasily and stirring with a vague noise like the rumor of surf. What were the cops trying to pull off? What was the big idea...
...This year the baseball team has a particularly big job cut out for it and nothing but a team of fighters can pull it through a successful season. Last year we were at the bottom of the Big Three cellar and it's going to be hard work getting out this year. At present the prospects are not as good as they were in 1925. I don't think the undergraduate body wants to stand for another pair of scores such as 25 to 15 and 18 to 4 at the hands of Yale...
...number of crews racing on the Charles in the biggest regatta of the spring was increased to four last night when M.I.T. announced that its crew would be a contestant. This entry makes it certain that the Navy, Cornell, and M.I.T. eights will pull against the University oarsmen...
ARICIE BRUN-Emile Henriot- Viking Press ($2). A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch. A young traveling man, Julien Brun, has the good fortune to pull him out. Thus, in 1817, begins a human little pageant of French bourgeoisie that continues for four generations, to the outbreak of war in 1914. For of course young Brun marries the mercer's daughter and lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter...