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...greatest intercollegiate tennis events comes out of a seven-year wartime hibernation this summer, when combined Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge teams meet each other in the renewal of the biennial Prentice Cup competition on the turf courts of the Newport Casino, Rhode Island...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Crimson-Eli Net Team Tackles British in July | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...After its third biennial "good looks" survey, the Woman's Home Companion reported that 93% of its women readers now use lipstick (v. only 85% in 1945), that 93% use "antiperspirants and deodorants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

That was the essence of AEC's second biennial report last week. Besides staking out a new atomic testing ground somewhere in the Pacific (see The Nation), the commission had started a tremendous new construction program in the bomb works of Hanford. It was the beginning of a second major effort in the field of atomic weapons, an effort as great as the stupendous wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: On the Other Side of the Moon | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Hysteria, the endemic malady of the Boston Press, broke loose again yesterday as the Traveler caught sight of female figures in the Harvard Yard and let out its biennial cry of "co-education...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Traveler Sees 'Co-education' Adopted Here | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...dried as a stalk in an old corn shock. Big, conservative, conscientious Gustav Theodore Kuester (TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Speaker Gus | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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