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Although the Harvard attack showed a little more coordination in the last period, it could not sink any of 11 shots at the Brown goal. This was, unfortunately and obviously, just not the Crimson's night...
...capsule is allowed to remain as a sort of frame to keep the artificial lens from drifting farther back into the eyeball. The plastic chosen for the job (Perspex, similar to the Plexiglas used for airplane windshields) is only half as heavy as glass and is not likely to sink...
...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...
...from $2.50 a year per acre to as high as $50. On the New York Stock Exchange, St. Regis Paper Co., which owns some nearby land, became the heaviest-traded stock, gained more than two points. Gulf and Standard of Indiana, which own leases near by, got ready to sink wells of their own. "The well blew its top," said Alabama's state geologist, Dr. Walter B. Jones, "and all the oil people blew their tops...
...Crimson swimming team would be favored to sink its strongest opponent to date when it travels to Annapolis Saturday, but the Navy has done a fairly efficient job of scuttling itself. Naval Academy coach John Higgins said last night that two of his top performers will be unable to compete...