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Last week the winds blew and the rains came and they beat upon the earth, which, though it is founded as on a rock, happened to shake violently at the same moment. As if shrugging off the effects of a long, hard winter, the earth twitched, with varying degrees of violence: 1) in a small section around Santa Barbara, Calif, (where last year, to a day, destructive temblors came); 2) over a larger section in the Mediterranean basin, from Italy to Crete and Egypt; 3) and nearer the Equator, at Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some...
...shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only one tongue in which gentlemen explained such things to each other. Thereafter-"Three . . ."- he accused Count Skrzynski of having engineered the coup of General Pilsudski, and now-"Four ..."-he waited...
Watts was stroke of the University shell until the recent shake-up following the resignation of Coach Stephens. Last year he captained the Freshman eight. Gates and Weymer have rowed for two years on the Second University crew, while Fanning, Perkins, and Barry were members of the same boat last spring...
...psychological effect of the shake-up should be a healthy one. There has existed all season a courageous spirit among the rowers, but it was a well-nigh hopeless one. From now on the same spirit will exist with the important, indeed vital, difference that it will be hopeful...
...again one can only say that Mr. Boas has undoubtedly encountered these discouraging people. It is difficult, however, to shake off the idea that here is the devil's advocate again. It is hard to believe that a man endowed with sympathy could not find, even in "Vandalia", where Mr. Boas' professor fell on such rocky soil, people with vivacious minds, and to be sure that the fault did not lie chiefly with the professor who let bluster over-awe him. Evidently people were to him no even book, and he never passed beyond the title page...