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Winthrop's Puritans clung to their second-place standing in the intra-House hockey loop with a 6-2 win over Dudley yesterday morning on the Arena ice, sending the Commuters into a last-place tie with Leverett. Hans Estin, Puritan first string center, paced the scoring with two goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Sextet Wins, 6-2 | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...three harassed officials tried in vain to pull the traveler from the luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Owners | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Winthrop's Puritans clung to their House basketball lead Friday night with a 39 to 34 triumph over Lowell House. In the evening's only other match, Eliot trimmed Kirkland in two overtime periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Eliot Win | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...were reassured by the uniforms. Along Jews Street, the quarter's center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against a building in the sun begging for baksheesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Dead City | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Attrition | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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