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...tennis association, now comprised of Penn, Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton, will not include Yale either. Carroll as president of the tennis association by F. Getchell of Harvard has been replaced Col. Lawrence (Biff) Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Quits League Race But Retains Formal Athletics | 12/3/1943 | See Source »

...forests, backbone of Sweden's economy, now produce fuel, fabrics, food and fodder. Mass expeditions into the countryside have harvested tons of wild roots, berries and herbs. Nettle soup has been found to be tasty. Not so tasty is boar flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Duke's Wallace Wade, Tennessee's Bob Neyland, Nebraska's Biff Jones-now in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last College Try? | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep and biff got married and bam had children and oof got fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandpa's Pa | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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