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Miss Smith did recall trying to use the tap unsuccessfully once yesterday to get a drink of water. Her efforts were rewarded by only a trickle of tepid rust, and she remembers turning this...
...interests that was part of the Harvard tradition. Though the need for an enthusiastic rebirth of activities is evident, the fact is that the great number of undergraduate special-interest clubs are still limping along, buoyed up by a small group of perennial stalwarts, and totally unable to tap the large store of potential participants...
American opposition to the exclusion of Spain is a partial result of pressure from U. S. airlines eager for Spanish airfields with which to tap the lucrative European air market. As has been too often the case in our domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations...
...addition to the veteran backs the Huskies have on tap, there-is an experienced line up front. Six of the probable seven starters on the forward wall are also former letter-winners, which means that almost every member of the team facing Dick Harlow's charges when festivities get under way on Saturday has had at least one year of training under Christian's single wing system. The same cannot be said of the Crimson starting lineup, no matter what form it takes on Saturday, and the Harlow system is known from Ogunquit to San Diego as a course...
...high altitudes, can reach compressibility in ordinary level flight. The pilot opens the throttle. The speed picks up as the magic jet engine shoves harder. It is as smooth as oil, so nearly vibrationless that sometimes a special gadget is installed to tap on the instrument board and keep the plane's instruments from sticking...