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...peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding a Communist State at all. Today Dictator Stalin is creating as much in the way of Russian centres of industry and war bases as possible behind the Ural Mountains. It is no secret...
...Harvard's Varsity wrestlers lost to Yale by a score of 10-11. Yale led, going into the heavyweight bout 14-11, and Harvard needed a fall to win and a decision would draw the meet. In what was easily the feature bout of the night, Pickett of Yale threw Glendinning of Harvard in 4:32 for the Crimson grapplers' first joss in Dual competition. Winners for Harvard were Captain Brooks Cavin who won by a fall in 8:10, Lorrin Woodman who won an overtime bout from Cutler of Yale and John Harkness, who completed his second undefeated season...
...preliminary meet the Harvard Freshman lost to Yale 21 1-2 to 4 1-2 Winners for Harvard were Arthur Page, who kept his slate clean by taking a decision from Blackmon of Yale, and Gardiner, who threw Cocchart in 2:23. Daughaday of Harvard drew with Schwab of Yale in an overtime bout...
Unlimited class: Glendenning (H) threw Herman (T). Time...
...harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death. To simplify matters and start with a clean slate, Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father's seven pregnant concubines in sacks and threw them into the sea. This violence was deprecated, and thereafter the heirs-potential were merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne after a lifetime, "when they had all but lost the power of speech, and their minds and bodies were like vegetables." But now, says...