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There exist few doubters to whom it is necessary to demonstrate anew the value of a well-organized program of intramural athletics. To the aspiring athlete of sub-varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
Only double champion was Jack Lindsey, 21, of Okmulgee. Okla., who won the sub-small-gauge title with a record-breaking 98 out of 100, and then took the small-gauge championship in a shootoff after tying two of the sport's most seasoned gunners at 99 out of 100. The new No.1 lady skeeter of the U. S. is a 17-year-old Akron schoolgirl. Patricia Laursen. who has been shooting only two years but was good enough last week to break 96 out of 100. the best record any woman has registered at the national meet...
Intermittent spells of heat and torrential rains failed to shake the steady progress of the work, as 85 laborers toiled constantly to keep the work on schedule. At one time, heavy rains and sub-surface water necessitated working in water until the foundation, sinking 22 feet below the surface, was laid. Since that time, no serious obstacles have arisen to impede the work, and the Center will be finished on time, according to construction managers, on or about December...
...vehicular tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete...