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...Pond '25 and P. H. Theopold '25 were responsible for saving the life of B. L. Rideout '27, when the M. I. T. launch ran down and sank the shell in which the Senior class crew was rowing yesterday afternoon...
Confusion was caused when the men tried to swim instead of holding to the shell, Rideout, muffled in heavy coxswain's togs, sank several times but was saved by Theopold and Pond. He was unconscious for some time, but was resting comfortably at Stillman infirmary last night...
...where recognized, where unrecognized, Russia secured few real ad- vantages, and Communism was seemingly drifting to Never Never Land. The Russian Bear sank down exhausted on its empty belly. Starvation was once more a reality. Discontent was growing more difficult to control. Elaborate propaganda failed to screen the actualities of a situation that was not far from desperate...
...blessing of El Nino proved overabundant. With their arid lands made a paradise, the natives found themselves economically impoverished. Along the Dry Coast, roofs, never made rainproof, fell in; houses, made of mud, sank to the ground in soggy heaps. Water-filled boats sank. As the waters rose, cattle, gardens, buildings, whole farms and villages were swept from the earth into the sea. The largest losses, practically total, were suffered by the guano* industry. Islands off Peru from which 119,000 tons of guano (nine million dollars' worth) were mined last year, were stripped of their ancient deposits...
...rare that either crew defaults until its boat is actually sunk. In 1912, both boats sank, the race was rowed over again, Oxford...