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...foot four inch Bernie Adams, Princeton center and high scorer, with 17 points, worked in the bucket for most of the evening and scored or set up two-thirds of the Tigers' points in the first half. His passes and fakes made the Princeton plays work, and it was the second half before the Crimson started guarding effectively enough to upset the Tiger system...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Takes On B.C. Here Tonight; Basketball Squad Loses to Princeton, 51-46 | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

With three days practice to remove the effects of holiday indulgences, House League basketball teams will start play Friday for a short ten days before exams. This is a mere spit-in-the-bucket, token operation; the major part of the season always comes in February, after exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Basketball Comes Back for Ten Days Friday | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

Eastbound from Okinawa, the big Air Force C-54 droned steadily into the night. At .glowing instrument board and hood-lighted desk the six men of its crew worked. In the cabin the passengers, 31 Spokane-bound soldiers of the 98th Bomber Group, shifted uncomfortably in their bucket seats and tried to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Eight Minutes to Search | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...this week-were just about the last of the big unions still haggling over their 1948 wage boosts. The rest of labor seemed ready to go to the well again. Arriving in Portland, Ore. for the C.I.O. convention, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther lowered the first bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To the Well Again | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed a handkerchief over his shaven pate. "Ai-yah," he groaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flee Where? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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