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...first meetings of courses are, as a rule, singularly unproductive and even a bit tiresome. There is, be sure, a certain feeling of relief in knowing that nothing of importance will be said, but in the average course such first impressions are deceptive and temporary. Hence Professor Cole threw the proverbial "pineapple" among the ranks of students in Economics 9a by announcing certain progressive measures which he intends to introduce into the course...
...Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
From 11 o'clock in the morning a trickle of unemployed began sifting in from Budapest's industrial suburbs toward the Inner City and the Municipal Park. With the noon whistle, when thousands of factory hands threw down their tools, the trickle swelled to a river. Socialist and Communist agitators appeared magically, shouting for government dole, free bread lines, work on government projects. Squads of mounted gendarmes moved nervously up and down the avenues...
...friend of Lincoln and outfitted a company with his own resources in the Northern army. Relatives and friends still reside in Bismarck. The second mistake was this: Precieuse did not commit suicide. ". . . In the agony of her grief, the white had striven to reassert itself. But now, as she threw her body forward and felt herself falling, even in that instant, the black finally triumphed. "Instantly the fear of a suicide's death stiffened the grip of her strong fingers on the willow branch. "Too late. The brittle willow branch snapped. Vith a wild scream she fell, clawing...
Jimmy De Mers of the Los Angeles A. C. threw his arm out of joint the first time he tossed the javelin. That was too bad for him but a good thing for the British Empire v. U.S. track meet at Soldier Field, Chicago, last week. It made things exciting for a while. De Mers had been considered certain to win the javelin-throw, and his winning was counted on to give the U. S. a point it would need. One event seemed certain to be won by the British team-the one-mile medley relay, for little Eddie Genung...