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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale, along with Columbia a competitor in the Varsity's heat, is primed for this regatta, rowing a high-cadence race conducive to better showings in the sprints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Crew | 5/16/1947 | See Source »

Balloting in the Houses was heavy, stated Axt, as close to 90 percent of the residents cast votes in almost every House. This weight of voting was partly responsible for the wide margins of victory, each winner finishing 30 to 40 votes ahead of his nearest competitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Elect Eight to New Council As Committee Releases Class Slates | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

Kaiser's own shipping costs for steel from his Fontana plant had gone up 17½% in the general freight rate carriers. At the news that his Utah competitor was actually getting a reduction, he jumped as if someone had dropped a hot rivet in his pocket. The lowered Geneva freight cut, he cried, would amount to a "subsidy of some $1,200,000 a year" to Geneva. In his complaint Kaiser had some strange allies: the eastern steel companies, competitors of U.S. Steel, whom he had long condemned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST: H. J. v. Big Ben | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Formed as a subsidiary of the Veterans Theater Workshop, of which West is a member, the new project has the backing of the House Committees. The Harvard Dramatic Club has indicated that it "does not consider the group a competitor" and will contribute Theodore P. Allegretti '47 to the first production, in which Workshop President Jerome T. Kilty '50, will also play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Forms 'Dining Hall Drama,' Will Tour Houses with Initial Production Early in April | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

According to prejudiced sources, the espionage attempts took place when a number of male literati, artists, and business men showed up at Radcliffe and "casually" began to ask questions concerning the set-up and plans of their three-month-old competitor. "A man's a man for a that," philosophized one Annex editor after the siege was over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Seeks Inspiration; Chased by Rival Radditudes | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

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