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A world of fantasy exists in These scholarships provide the last trustler of exploration. for the training of successful the earth's pater atmosphere, an candidates at British Univer-aerodynamics engineer, Howard of sities, hospitals
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atmosphere is possible, but life highly dificult. Candidates must be under there would be 30 years of age, and in posses-even with the special equipment man would be forced to wear. sion of a university degree, or The Douglas aircraft engineer the Hong Kong school leaving said. however, that decades certificate or a certificate re- would have to pass before man cognised as equivalent by the could even contemplate fights Director of Education, Hong to Venus, Mars or the Moon. Kong..
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Seventh Race Meeting Saturday-24th September, 1949
There are ten races, the First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.: and, the Arst racs will be run at 200 p.m.
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DON'T OVERDO ADVICE
I got the last two tricks. with the GOOD ADVICE is all right to diamond A and heart 3. That follow, unless
farmade four tricks for the defence you go too
the dealer, who Either the advice can be over- and nine for done, or the recipient can overdo scored exactly his game, with no his following of it. Such is the extras.
cash- case with the maxim about as raked in by North without the An extra trick might have been ing the trick that makes your game contract and not striving slightest possible risk of his cou for an extra trick of tricks if tract. If instead of taking bis gave the game is rubber bridge. There fourth heart trick, which are times when an extra trick. him his ninth all told, he had Cr tricks, may be sought without led toward his own spade K-Q, endangering the contract at allfan extra trick would have In those cases, it is just plain virtually sure, and there would silly, to score the game trick if have been no doing so abandons all chance for the additional
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A and a diamond to the 'J and Q Re gardless of how East bad dis- carded, he could not help giving North the ninth trick when he made a return. As he actually did discard, the best he could have done was take his diamond A and then lead to the heart K. That would have made North's ninth trick and the spade K would have been his tenth, an
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(Dealer: South North-South
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Tamorrow's Problem
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unblock, ran in the heart to
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three more clubs in the dummy and, seeing that the heart K and Qwould give him the needed ninth trick, laid them down. Then heled toward his own - high (Dealer West. Both sides yule
spades, having kept two of them serable).
and two diamonds. West won
CAQJS
How should South play for 8-
with the spade A, led his dia- No" Trumps after the spade 3 mond 10 to the ♬ and Q, and East] is led?.
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