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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this attempt to end the relationship between the colleges could not succeed. To be sure, many alternatives to the Big Three approach to Harvard athletics were proposed...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Lampoon Nearly Ended Tiger Rivalry | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...soft-spoken as his art is assertive, Hopkinson thinks his approach to portraiture "very oldfashioned. But just as on the stage it is easier to act a drunken man than a line character, it is easier to draw a caricature than to paint a face that denotes fine character. I've always tried to find the fine things rather than to make a sneering comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Finding the Fine Things | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Another approach to meteorological exactitude is through electronic computing machines: at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, scientists are feeding huge masses of figures on air velocity, temperature, pressure and humidity into intricate computers, and drawing off solved equations at the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air Weather Man | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...entering graduate schools; a few others by-pass the problem altogether by such dodges as taking a desk at the paternal office, or by making a Grand Tour. But for the majority each year, the question of a post-college livelihood becomes one of urgency as Commencement festivities approach...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: Placement Office Gives Year-Round Job Advice | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...airplane was supposed to drop food at the mountain top camp on July 25, but storms cancelled the flight. On July 28, some of the men climbed to high camp and waited again for the plane. They saw it approach, circle several times, then fly away--without dropping any food. The winds were too strong...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Storms, Cold, Hunger Faced Students Charting Rockies | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

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