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...second place to Eric Cutler that Gibbons gained was the crucial tally of the meet, for before the 440 Brown had scored 35 points, needing only a three-point second place to clinch the contest with the required 38. If Powers had won, if Crimson sprinters had placed better, if our breastrokers had been stronger--in other words if Harvard had finished one place better in any event to secure that precious single counter, the score would have been 38-37 for the Ulenmen, for the seven-point free-style relay fell to Harvard, too late...
Assen Jordanoff brightened his book with hundreds of lucid and often humorous illustrative drawings and diagrams, spiced it with asides like: "The difference between a three-point landing and a one-point landing is that after the first you can fly the plane again. . . . Being playful close to the ground may mean an extra order of lilies for your neighborhood florist...
Last week they sent to 1,000 public-school superintendents throughout the U.S. a report, Occupational Adjustment. They proposed that public schools adopt a three-point program to: 1) guide, 2) train, 3) place students in the right jobs. First step, said the superintendents, is to make up-to-date, realistic studies of occupations. In Denver, for example, the schools surveyed the baking industry, found what kinds of workers were employed, how many were likely to be needed, even what nationalities were preferred by employers...
Coach Harlow sent Wes Fesler and Lyal Clark to scout Army last Saturday against Columbia, and both returned with stern warnings about the shiftiness and pass-throwing ability of Woodrow and southpaw Huey. The Cadets' best play, their "three-point" fake pass, was largely responsible for their first-half drubbing of Columbia, according to these scouts...
...Designed to lessen landing hazards by allowing the plane to "fly right into the field" instead of settling in the ticklish "three-point" fashion of standard jobs...