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...table at Dartmouth. Here they are: All the men are required to sip their milk through one straw. "Stan" Yudicky limits himself to a cup of tea and a piece of toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of Bill Tilden's tennis proteges and regarded as a coming youngster several years ago is on the Yale backfield squad.... During the halves of all football games played at the Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain New York football expert has compiled statistics which reveal the fact that...
...both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate and a Harvard friend completed the car and drove it-the second ever seen in Cambridge...
...superintendent, having watched the young man at his work and guessing that here was something, a little above the average, said. "Say, youngster, you look like an educated fella. You musfa went to high school, didnja...
...Tilden's friend Hunter, thus confronted a Tilden thrice-stimulated-by petulance, revenge, ambition. And thus, as John Doeg began to win, it was altogether a distressing afternoon for Tilden. Time and again the latter stopped play to wait for the gallery to quiet itself. Finally Doeg, a youngster the like of whom has kowtowed to Tilden for years, suggested that they quit bickering and play tennis. In the second set Tilden fell trying to recover a shot. After that he hobbled around, glowering, displaying occasional samples of the brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could...
...potboiler the Merriwell series soon got out of hand. At the age of three months its weekly circulation was 75,000. Merriwell was to become what the author hoped-the hero of practically every youngster in the U. S, At the peak of his career Author Patten believes, a half-million schoolboys read him every week (many out of sight of parental eyes). Every week for 18 years Author Patten (under the name of "Burt L. Standish" so that others might carry on after him, or in case of illness) ground out 20,000 words. At first he was paid...