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...wins in eleven starts assures it of its best record since 1948, when the Crimson won eight, lost two, and tied one. A victory or a tie Friday would make it the best season in 17 years, for in 1938 a 3-3 tie with Princeton was the only blot on a record that saw eight wins...
TIME'S Man of the Year: Thurgood Marshall [Sept. 19], for sparking the successful "effort to remove from U.S. life a paralyzing sting in its conscience and the ugliest blot upon its good name in the world." (THE REV.) PHILIP KIRRANE, S.S.J. Baltimore...
...interact powerfully with the decisions and attitudes of other men of similar and quite different and opposite views. The resultant of these forces will determine the pace, the style and the success of an effort to remove from U.S. life a paralyzing sting in its conscience and the ugliest blot upon its good name in the world. Failure to achieve an orderly solution of the Negro problem would be-and this Thurgood Marshall feels deeply-much more than defeat for the Negro. It would be a failure at the very core of the American genius-its capacity for constructing forms...
...week from Wednesday, the nine will again face Yale at Soldiers Field before a capacity crowd of alumni. Andy Ward, whose one defeat this season came at the hands of the Elis, will probably get a chance to avenge this blot on his record...
...trivet-table of a foot was lame, A blot which prudent Baucis overcame, Who thrust beneath the limping leg a sherd...