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...conservative policy and keep his recently-injured stars out of the Brown tilt, concentrating all his efforts on next week's struggle with Yale. In the University football camp the feeling persists that a victory over the Bruins, who have a clean state to date, would be enough to warrant every effort, and even a few risks...
...report was more than premature, for the Caroline Institute of Stockholm, which allots the medical prize, announced immediately that during 1926, as during 1925, there was no work anywhere in the world distinguished enough to warrant its award...
...confessed to the murder charged against Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was "a crook, a thief, a robber, a liar, a rumrunner, a 'bouncer' in a house of ill-fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer could find no "fraudulent conspiracy between the Governments of the U. S. and the State of Massachusetts" to get rid of the two radicals...
...reason for this step lay in the large deficit that confronted the Student Council after the publication of last year's Register. It was felt, therefore, that the demand did not warrant the risk of similar deficit this year. New measures may be adopted in the future, but the publication will be suspended for this year...
...called the dinky, vicinal railroads whose earnings did not warrant their existence a "cancerous growth" on the U. S. transportation system. He advocated that 30,000 miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...