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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already 40-0, and there it stood at game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Irish | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...filler for the south access rotary and part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...present system of electing members, termed "bickering," lies near the bottom of the entire difficulty. Under its terms, the various clubs single out those students whom they most desire to have as members. There are two weeks of "Open House" in February during which time second term sophomores, and juniors left out in the previous year's bicker, can visit any and all clubs...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...prospects of victory are even dimmer this year, with both freshman and varsity squads vying for bottom on the rank-list. Losses included meets with Tufts, Holy Cross, Rhode Island State, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaakko Faces Princeton, Eli Teams Today | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...first big chance came when Sears, Roebuck & Co. hired him in 1934 to dress up its Coldspot refrigerator, an ugly machine with a dust trap under its spindly legs, and corrugated shelves inside. Loewy moved the motor, from top to bottom, chopped off the legs, and installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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