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Play began at a very fast clip with each team matching the other point for point. About midway through the first period, Cornell jumped to an 8 to 5 advantage, only to succumb to the determinel Harvard attack. From this point on, it was Harvard's game, although the visitors managed to lead once more later...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: CRIMSON HOOPMEN TOPPLE BIG RED UNBEATEN MERMEN FACE INDIANS | 2/15/1941 | See Source »

...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Mr. Pierson Pitches Woo | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For Four Human Freedoms | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...managed to play ball with recent Latin American dictators. It is more than friendly to Brazil's Dictator Getulio Vargas. It is not particularly concerned about Paraguay, where President Higinio Morinigo has declared himself dictator. But Paraguay is far away and Brazil is a pretty good clip, while the Republic of Panama, less than half as far, sits astride the most strategic waterway in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: ARIAS DIGS IN | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plaut's Root | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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