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Dartmouth came to life on its home court against the Pennsylvanians, and won a 72 to 56 decision with the aid of Ed Leed's 26-point splurge. Center Aud Brindly and Captain chip Coleman also helped the Big Green cause, while Jack Coleberg and Chink Crossin hit double figures for the Quakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli, Green, Court Triumphs Leave Crimson in Ivy Cellar | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Ponn has a host of veterans from pre-war years, including Chink Crossin, who in 1944 won some people's nomination for All American. The Quakers also have whipped Yale's struggling forces, which seems to have little besides center Tony Lavelli to offer. Princeton has two standout performers back in George Lawry, who led the league in field goals in 1942-43, and Butch Van Breda Kolff. They handed a twenty-point defeat to Rutgers, which in turn Handed Columbia a three-point beating. The Tigers also absorbed a horrendous drubbing at the hands of Seton Hall...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/7/1947 | See Source »

...Chink in the Door. Next afternoon the Committee resumed its work. It castigated the new India plan as "vague, inadequate and unsatisfactory." At the same time it left the door to settlement open a chink by agreeing to contest the coming elections and negotiate with the British Government. On the prickly problem of Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) the Working Committee had already hedged: Congress would oppose partition, but, if unsuccessful, it would not compel seceding Moslems to stay inside a Hindu India. From the Moslem League and its canny, cagey president, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, came no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hyphens & Dashes | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...usual, TIME has filled in a little chink for me. I thought that TIME might be interested in a little background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Atomic Bomb | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

This last seemed to be a wide-open door, thus brought the greatest flood of claims. Actually, it is a mere chink, well guarded by the Bureau's multitude of hairline distinctions, and holds little hope for war babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try to Get It | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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