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...beating the New York Rangers 5 to 3 last night in New York, the Boston Bruins ran their undefeated string...
Another difficulty which has been felt all this winter is the glaring lack of good centers. Dave Eaton and Skip Ervin departed via the diploma route last June to leave the first two pivot positions wide open. To make matters worse, Bob Cox, third string center, and Johnny Paine, Freshman pivotman last year, were both kept off the ice by scholastic probation until this week, when both were released...
This anachronistic force tagged along behind a string of Free French tanks and trucks as it crept into southernmost Libya. The caravan pushed 200 miles across the desert to el-Gatrún, which the Free Frenchmen took without so much as seeing an Italian. They went 100 miles further to the more important outpost of Múrzuch, where there was both garrison and airport. When the Free French were sighted, all the Italians went into the post and shut the gates tight. The Free French men surrounded the post in mock siege, spent a day leisurely destroying hangars...
...chest provided by Congress, President Pierson had lent almost $232,000,000 to Latin America. How much of this the Export-Import would see again was problematical. That U. S. manufacturers would benefit was certain. For Pierson had tied a string to most of the latest loans; with few exceptions, they provide that the money is to be spent in the U. S. Last week the exceptions began to cause trouble...
...done as if from a Junior Leaguer's notebook. But the sterilities of Elyot, the smolderings of Eden, above all the nervous, bogus charm and climacteric rut of the mother, are very real indeed; and scene after scene is worked out with exactness and subtlety which no second-string novelist can scent, far less nail to paper...