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...anti-climax, the Stahlmen will take on Ted Williams and his Amherst naval training mates at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Soldiers Field. The contest was postponed last Friday because of rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew, Nine Win in Hair-Raising Merriwell Contests | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Poughkeepsie regattas. Over the years the race on the Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest of the country, those of the Pacific Coast in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Poughkeepsie | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

...that Philip Merivale, Ina Claire and Harry Sherman are in the rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

Perhaps expectations about this picture have run so high that the eventual product would have to be an anti-climax, no matter how good it was. It does seem, however, that there are more potentialities in the film than have been realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Harvard has never failed to place in the 62 year history of the event. Only the fact that the meet is more or less of an anti-climax, coming as it does after four successive Saturdays of competition, has caused the change of policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD OUT OF I.C.4A TRACK FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1877 | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

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