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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granite quarries in Quincy, whose smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...brooding live oaKs beneath which the members of the city's best society used to walk on Sunday afternoons, exchanging courtly salutes and smiling at one another's poodles. With their customary sense of historic irony, Italy's Communists last week chose this park for the biggest, gaudiest clambake that Dante's city had seen in many a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

This week, as Grandstaff headed back for Tennessee and the penitentiary, he had the cheers of Big Springers in his ears. Mayor G. W. Dabney summed it up: "Our biggest boost since we struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Habitual Composer | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Houston, who followed Valpey and received the biggest cheer of the evening, told the crowd, "It's great to be back in Cambridge. I think we'll do better if you'll stick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1200 Shout and Parade to Welcome Homecoming; Otherwise Few Cavort | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

...Leverett House; Eliot's coach is "discouraged by his small turnout," but figures that a bunch of sophomore newcomers may do much to pull his team through. Leverett's Bunnies have their entire 1948 backfield back, as does Adams House; the Gold Coasters'forward wall is one of the biggest in the league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Gridders Begin Drills | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

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