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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meet, Yale, and pool records went under beneath the flailing arms of Eli's Allen Stack in 150-yard backstroke with 1:33.4. The former Yale record was notched by Alan Ford, free-style ace, at New Haven in 1944, taking the water on his back for variety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Weekend Sees Three Varsities | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Genaro was a Morelia carpenter just come to the capital when, on Oct. 3, 1920, he bumped his head getting off a streetcar and fell beneath the wheels. He lay in the street while Mexico's Red Cross and White Cross (then hot rivals for every body found in the streets) argued about who should get him. A woman stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Shorty | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...with the formation of the current Faculty Room and the final elimination of undergraduates from all but occasional and official visits to University Hall. Exactly the same size as the original chapel, this room is where the monthly meetings of the faculty take place. President Conant sits directly beneath the portrait of President Eliot at the head of the round table shown in the picture, Dean Buck to his right, and Dean Hanford to his left. The rest of the faculty faces them, and despite the austere portraits of men such as Longfellow, Agassiz, Henry James, and the famous professor...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: Circling the Square | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

...Feast of Peace. On the walls of the working-class district beneath the Parthenon, scrawled slogans gave a chronology of Greece's sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...holes in the sides of the chute leading to the pulp vat, so that some of the coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Gleaners | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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