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...driven out of their respective countries and out of circulation in accord with Gresham's Law. Possibly the reason is that if driven out of one country, they would yet be in another and still available. Or the recent wholesale discounting of all royal values may have upset the working of economic theory, a not unusual occurrence--in practice...
...here goes for today's big results and the one big upset which will, I know surprise you all. That dear readers, is the silencing of the screaming eagle at University Heights. Yes, sir, Boston College is going to start the season with a defeat. Now isn't that too bad? But as an accurate forecaster, I have to be honest with my public. The truth must out, no matter how much the hurt...
Although the Covenanters secretly had hoped to upset Cornell, they have refused to take the 6-0 reversal as other than an achievement to be proud of, Coach McMillin declared upon his arrival home that his team performed every bit as well as he had expected. Defensively, it was pronounced by Ithaca critics to have been on a par with any team seen there in several seasons. Time and again it withstood the crunching drives of Dobie's husky backs...
...little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...
...Wanamaker's as he romped over the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 flat. Smith, an elevator man, won the broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score of 69; Pennsylvania Railroad was second with 52; then came Prudential Life, Otis Elevator, New York Stock Exchange. Reliance, Consolidated Gas, Jus Ryte Dental, all perspiring and honorable contenders in the first national industrial track...