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...last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly about the head and this was followed by 50 lashes with a whip. . . . Then I was flattened on my back, my head was jerked back and water was poured into my nostrils. . . . Next they strapped me into the 'tiger's chair'-an ordinary chair anchored to the floor. Bricks were placed under my feet and piled up one by one. As each brick stretched my taut leg muscles farther, the agony became unbearable. I fainted seven times within 40 minutes. . . . They gave me what they called...
Most shifts in British Command are easily passed over-with a grave pat on the back for the deposed man, three cheers and a tiger for the new one. But last week's shift, involving the greatest British military hero of the war, could not be tossed off lightly. Winston Churchill got into a dreadful row with Leslie Hore-Belisha for failing to explain the exchange. Observers were left to discover their own explanations for the shift. It was not difficult...
Princeton's Sophomore hurling ace, Roy Talcott, undefeated in or out of the League, gained his fifth tournament win when the Tiger batsmen crashed through with seven runs in the thirteenth frame to break a 7 to 7 deadlock and to move themselves into second position. Facing Pennsylvania this Saturday. Bill Clarke's Nassau team, never a winner in the history of the League, is able by beating the Pennsylvanians to move into a first-place tie with Cornell. The Tiger campaign would then be fought out in the June series with Yale...
...recent intercollegiate meet, number one man, George N. Hurd '42 swept the river to give the Crimson runner-up position to Princeton's Dick Hartshorne. Hurd led his Tiger opponent almost all the way but fell behind at the very end to trail Hartshorne by a mere half length...
...Freshman Commons food costs $8.50 a week, and the chief complaint of the Tiger Kittens, ironically enough, is that they are rushed through their meals in "eight minutes flat as a maximum...