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...Spain was sacrificed, as Carr writes, to no avail Both the USSR and the West were busy worrying about Hitler, and outside of the usual declamations neither helped the Spanish...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Losing Sight of the Revolution | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...seemed to lose sight of the puck. It landed in the Crimson zone, where Mark Henderson scored what later proved to be the decisive goal. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary protested vehemently that Henderson was standing in the zone before the puck fell, and was thus offside. All to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Best Games: A Study in Drama | 2/16/1985 | See Source »

Creusot-Loire was created in 1970 by the merger of three steel and engineering groups. In 1980 Harvard-educated Didier Pineau-Valencienne took over as chairman and sought to streamline the company's operations. To no avail. In 1983 the group racked up record losses of $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bankruptcy: Creusot-Loire Goes Under | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...degree and a certificate are two quite separate things for two quite separate occasions," Gomes argued, but to no avail...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Charles T. Kurzman, S | Title: Faculty Votes to Award Degrees Posthumously | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...avail, at either end of the court. "I think we boxed out well and we didn't let them penetrate in the lane," an elated senior Co-Captain Joe Carrabino said later...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Hottest Game in Town | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

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