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Individual brilliance was the keynote last night at the M.I.T. pool as the varsity swimmers took seven of nine firsts to chalk up a 46 to 29 win over the Engineers. Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris, who won their own events and then teamed to clinch the 300-yard medley, stood out among the victors. The Yardling team took the curtain-raiser from its Tech opposite number by a 45 to 21 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '51 Swimmers Down M.I.T. | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

Bradley Tech will present the ultimate in the two-platoon system. The Midwesterners are so deep in reserves, in fact, that they have played three evening double-headers so far this year, winning all six games to chalk up a perfect record. Boston University will open the Garden's evening sports program at 8 o'clock against Syracuse...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: McCurdy Eligible for Bradley Game | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...only ways to dispel the apathy so prevalent now. The present 1951 attempt to "surpass all previous Smoker gaiety" should not be stymied by the abortive affair of last year, when the Class of '48 was forced by fear of publicity to forego Jane Russell for chalk talks by Dahl, and finally to forego Dahl for no Smoker. But publicity is unfavorable only if riots and abductions ensue, and by vetoing the get-together, University Hall only intensified the disunity already present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So Fully Packed | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...time basketball comes back to Harvard this year," say the signs on the wall of the Indoor Athletic Building. The hands that hold the chalk-and have high hopes of using it again this winter to mark up an impressive string of victories-are those of Varsity coach Bill Barclay and his group of elongated Crimson hoop artists...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

This was bad news for the U.S. economy. With steel mills humming at 97.1% of capacity, highest since June 1944, the industry was ready to chalk up a record peacetime production year. To keep the mills running at the present rate of 84,000,000 tons a year would require about 17,500,000 tons of scrap in the next six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Again? | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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