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...captain, who turned in a sizzling 2:13.8 to win the furlong in the Eastern Intercollegiates at Annapolis last Saturday. Welsh swam a 2:11.4 earlier in the season, but Powers was clocked in 2:11.2 in a practice session and with two more weeks of training might conceivably chop off a few more tenths of a second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calling The Turns | 3/20/1941 | See Source »

...rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

Three unidentified undergraduates, in a glorious attempt to chop down the Eli goal-posts under cover of night after the game Saturday, ended up in the New Haven brig under charges of trespassing and attempted vandalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTEMPT ON YALE GOAL POSTS LANDS HARVARD MEN IN JAIL | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...Chop down trees of poor types, replacing with best types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Rubber Rebound? | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Daily Damage | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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