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...clock the 1929 outfit will entrain for Newport to open St. George's season. As the-schoolboy soccer season does not start until the end of the gridiron season, the Newport booters are an uncertain quantity, but may push the green Freshman team...
...these misfortunes are not evident. It is an English characteristic to 'face the music' and take things as they come without being too much perturbed. There is no brooding over the disaster, as in Latin countries; the English mind is always looking up to push forward. As a natural result of this the nation pays its debts and makes good its credit, whatever the burden on the individual...
...down like the 'Old Toothbrush' from brother to brother during the last 12 years until at length it has come into my hands. At times I found it difficult to do my home lessons until 10 o'clock at night and then rise at 5 in the morning to push through snow covered streets in the cold and darkness, but on the whole I have found by experience, delivering newspapers, highly beneficial to me morally, physically and financially...
...looked about them indulgently. Up and back they had conversation. Their talk ran upon the excellent idea it was not to minimize the importance of their Council meetings by holding them more frequently than once in three years; upon the sound reasoning that had led them to decide to push ahead with the fraternity's million-dollar endowment fund, of which at least $100,000 must be in hand by December, 1926, for the erection of a founders' memorial building at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) upon the society's 150th anniversary; upon the sensible resolution they...
...result of two years' experimenting, this wireless telephonic conversation where the two parties could talk to and hear each other simultaneously. Hitherto messages could be spoken only one way at a time, but German engineers have eliminated the interference of sending with receiving antennae. Just a push of a switch and the listener could become the talker. The duplex set operated on a wavelength of 1,800 or 1,450 meters. It was found effective up to 700 miles. Other conversations were held between the Columbus and persons in their offices in Germany; and when the Columbus reached Manhattan...