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...separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they are a peculiarly useless insect if they do not sting. The obvious thing, I should think, is to look up some barbs
...biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they somewhat offended; and all the more because they were right. . . . You resented the sting of Peek's commanding dictum . . . but he put you on your mettle...
...foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...electrification of the Brazilian state railways, which have never been electrified. Some $5,000,000 from a bond issue was used by Bolivia in 1928 to pay a two-year-old bill for munitions bought from Vickers, Ltd. of London. From these revelations Clarence Dillon took some of the sting by reading into the record on the final day a prepared statement in which he said, "We have calculated that if one man had bought the entire amount of securities sponsored by Dillon, Read & Co. from Jan. 1, 1929, to June 30. 1933, and had sold on the latter date...
...confident Harvard wrestling team will be host to a tough, well-conditioned Army squad in the Indoor Athletic Building this evening at 7 o'clock. With the Cadets out to avenge their severe repulsion at Cambridge in 1930 and the Crimson eager to erase the sting of a 2-point defeat at West Point in 1931, Coach Gallagher expects a close and fast battle...