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Rogers doubled to the left field wall in the second with two out, but was left. This was Harvard's sole hit until the fourth when Todd singled with one gone and scored on Hammond's mighty drive to center, which the fleet-footed Smith held to two bases. Samborski hit safely to start the fifth. Spalding pushed him along with a perfect sacrifice, and Jenkins scored him with a line single to right center...
...sell their stock to the foreign companies. Under these circumstances, Sir Henri found it impossible to carry out his plan and he has finally decided to sell out his Union Oil holdings, consisting of 235,565 shares, and employ the funds in the Russian oil fields. The Wall Street firm of Dillon, Read & Co. have purchased the Union shares, and except for a few small subsidiaries Royal Dutch has been prevented from gaining a foothold in the American oil fields. Incidentally, Sir Henri was reported to have sold his Union stock for about $10,000,000 more than he paid...
...York end the receiving apparatus consists of an electric lamp behind a thin metal wall, placed in a strong magnetic field. The wall forms one side of a narrow slot through which the light passes. The fluctuations in the current passing through the magnetic field move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right...
...with going to the Copley once in a long while and reading the New York criticisms between-vacations. But there seems to have been a lot of publicity for vaudeville lately--a big article all about the Industry in the Satevepost; the notorious Heywood Broun recently driven to the wall by his own contribs and forced to admit that some vaudeville is pretty good; and that story about the lady in the hospital who, on realizing she had missed a whole bill at Keith's, flew into such a state of nerves she had to stay another week--so, really...
...Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master's character to the university. Blinded by the Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed, his head against a wall, according to his legend. Dante finds him in the Harpy-haunted Wood of suicides and lets him defend his honor and good faith...