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Wiping the sweat of House competition off his brow, Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, last night issued the final standings for the Straus Trophy. Not unexpected is Kirkland's top position. Somewhat unexpected is the discovery that Eliot, several points behind Lowell when winter hostilities closed, passed the Bellboys on the home stretch and nosed into second place behind the Deacons. Also noticeable is the fact that the order in which the Houses placed in these final standings is the same order in which the crews finished; perhaps a new tradition will arise: "As the crew goes...
...fifth month of an ordinary session would find Congress, well past the warm-up stage, in a healthy sweat of legislative action. Last week, beginning its fifth month, the Senate met on Monday, adjourned until Thursday, met briefly then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
...privileged to enjoy annual salaries or monthly remittances from the family, sometimes forget that the man who earns his living by his trade and the sweat of his body as a rule is paid only when he works, and he gets almost as hungry during December and January as he does in July and August. So do his wife and children...
...Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member of his crew at $3 a month, explaining that he cannot put back into Gloucester until the fore and after holds are full of fish, by which time Harvey will have earned $9. In the sweat-steaming, overheated fo'c'sle, sometimes in the dory of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), the Portuguese crew member who boat-hooked him from the liner's creaming wake, always beset by the wild and hairy faces of these shipmates whose lives, like their bodies, had been twisted into...
...artificial fever treatment takes up to ten hours. Until Dr. Simpson learned to give patients salty water to drink to replace the salt lost in sweat, many became delirious. Dr. Neymann, a psychiatrist, last week averred that artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain or affect the mind...