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...lire) would cost $57.90. No vases would then be bought by foreigners, and the laborer would be thrown out of work. Obviously, as the value of the lira increases, the price of the vase in lire will be lowered, but this type of readjustment always lags behind the rapid shift in international exchange, and therefore causes unemployment and suffering...
...operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...
...order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared...
...possible that Captain Winthrop's men will be put through their paces for time tomorrow if the weather improves. This afternoon brought the worst weather conditions with which the eights have had to contend. No changes have been made in any of the boats with the exception of the 'shift occasioned by Watts' blistered hand...
...shift in the line-up for the Dedham game, caused by the absence of Holden White '28, the fourth member of last year's championship team has apparently weakened the squad only slightly. R. B. Burnett '28, playing his first game for the University was used at number one, while F. D. Stranahan '26, who usually plays this position, was shifted to back and Captain R. D. Pinkerton '27 was placed at number three. The expected return of White to the line-up for the second game of the intercollegiate tournament will probably increase the scoring power of the Crimson...