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...Great Waste. The deceptive luxuriance of the valley has long filled men with dreams of wealth, but actually the valley is a great wasteland. From the air the Amazon looks at one minute like a wide brown river (it varies from one to seven miles in width). In the next minute, it has lost all pattern in a thousand islands of every conceivable size...
Winthrop nosed out the Dunster eight by about the width of a dirty sweat sock yesterday in the most closely contested intramural crew heat of the day. The margin of victory was so small that even the winning crow, clocked at 4:28, was in some doubt as to which shell had crossed the line first...
...rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced he had a salable car that he spent $18 million to retool. Last week, shy Ed Barit was beaming with good news: in 1947 Hudson had doubled its profit...
...proverbial width of the Wheaties flake, the varsity wrestling team won a well-earned 16 to 13 match from Cornell before a crowd of 800 at the Blockhouse last Saturday. Bob Claflin took down Cornell's Gardner Reynolds in the last two seconds of the 175-pound class bout to provide the deciding three points for the Crimson...
...ring for the .30 target is ten inches in diameter, whereas the entire bull for the .22 is only the size of a quarter, and its ten-ring less than one-fifth of an inch in width...