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...There is always a joke about the tariff. . . . The measure is put through the House only to be torn to shreds in the Senate and finally turned into a bill that will muster votes by an obscure conference committee...
Ivan Skripnik took up the knife. Gregory Romashevsky said: "I am strangely torn between the desire of my soul for heaven, and the desire of my body for earth. Please pray once more...
...order to make way for the first unit of the new House Plan, the building at 34 Holyoke-Street, which provides quarters for the Economics and Naval Science Departments, will be moved to a site on Plympton Street formerly occupied by wooden tenement houses, now being torn down, it was learned yesterday from A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University. Work on moving the structure will probably be started immediately after Commencement...
...Black Watch (Fox). One more of those English officers torn between love and patriotism goes back to his regiment on New Year's Eve a gentleman and a major. Victor McLaglen's inexperience as an interpreter of erotic reactions is made up for by Myrna Loy and by photography of the Khyber Pass and its adjacent wastes that is much too good for the story. Best shot: The tribesmen mobilizing...
...soared into the air and circled upward, ever upward, one mile, two miles, three, four, five, six, seven miles. Another 1,000 ft. he climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world...