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...White Sox may be the surprise team in the league, though Simmons has suffered from a torn hand, tooth-pullings, weak ankles and rheumatism since the team went into training...
During the World War I was a warrant officer with the 32nd Division, U. S. A. and on the drive through Chateau Thierry . . . I was billeted in a shell-torn building. During the night I slept on a pile of strewn papers in the middle of the floor of a room in this building and in the morning picked up an attractive document written on parchment and in old French script, merely as a souvenir...
...Antarctic ice barrier on which Captain Hjalmar J. Riiser-Larsen was making a preliminary camp last week sundered with a terrific sound like giant bolts of canvas being torn. The Norwegian whalers which had with difficulty put him, two companions, 53 dogs, a wireless machine and a year's supply of food, fuel and equipment on the ice barrier, had all gone. His party was to travel 3,000 mi. along the Atlantic edge of the Antarctic, from Princess Ragnhild Land to Hearst Land...
...meantime the journal had disappeared. Apparently the whole trouble was the result of the carelessness of Hancock's coachman, who was told to bring six books, and forgot exactly half of them. The missing ledger lay in the Hancock stable from 1776 until 1863, when the building was torn down. Mr. C. L. Hancock, of the class of 1829, found the book and turned it over to the College Library on April...
Though physically torn out and burned, this resolution had not been, in proper Parliamentary form, "expunged." Last week young Randolph Churchill, lecturing son of Statesman Winston and an ex-newshawk for William Randolph Hearst, hurried down from London to the Union with an expunging party of Old Oxonians...