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Incidentally, it is worthy of note that this is the first Freshman major sport victory over Yale since the spring of 1922, when the Yale boat sank at New London, while it was still slightly in the lead. At that time, there was much secret rejoicing, in spite of--or on account of--the somewhat unusual circumstances; this time, however, there is nothing to prevent the Freshman team's receiving the praise that it certainly deserves...
...defensive work. Flood at goal saved a number of close shots. The Freshmen began to score late in the first period. The line brought the puck within striking distance of the cage. Scott let drive and narrowly missed the net, but Burnett captured the rubber on the rebound and sank it deep into the far corner of the goal. Coady made the winning point from quarter ice when there was but five minutes to play...
From a corner of the Opera House that no one had noticed broke the strains of Schubert's Ave Maria. The audience sank back in anticipation, the committee on the stage retired to one side, and, having sat fuming at delay in her dressing room, on came Isadora Duncan to the center of the stage where she stayed for a few moments, bent in wonder over the image of a Christ child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic...
...still strong, but?"Too old," said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty?jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her?at last she began to belong to a real family. And there settled, for the time at least, and, fairly content, we leave...
...value of the mark sank to the incomprehensible figure of .00000001 ⅝% of one cent to one mark, or about 6,500,000,000 marks to the dollar. The actual number of marks in circulation according to the last weekend statement of the Reichsbank was 28,228,800,000,000,000 (twenty-eight quadrillions, two hundred and twenty-eight trillions, eight hundred billions). The cost of living in Berlin doubled in four days...