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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With major intercollegiate competition shelved until February, the Crimson will have to be content with games in the tougher metropolitan league, largely composed of local clubs whose playing resters list many former eastern college squash greats...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Squash Team Opposes University Club Today | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...India's biggest political party (10½ million members), it is also the largest association in the world of people pledged to puritanism (Indian brand). To join, one must give up liquor. If he entertains political ambitions, he must give up wearing anything but khadi (handspun cloth), and content himself with a modest salary. Recently the Congress press has been scandalized by rumors that Indian ambassadors abroad serve liquor at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Censorious Bachelor | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...dangerous precedent," warned Chinese Justice Mei Ju-ao. Even some Japanese were cautious in praise of the decision. "We are keenly alive to the honor of a supreme court of a democracy which does not rest content unless every doubtful point is eliminated," editorialized Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, "but what concerns us most is the issue of how to safeguard the world against war crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: For Posterity | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...artist, Churchill made a timid start, but his fighting nature soon reasserted itself. "We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paintbox. And for this Audacity is the only ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joy Ride in a Paint-Box | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Class activities to date. The Redbook contains almost exactly the same material, with the exception that its accounts of freshman activities cover the entire year. One may point cut, however, that the Class Album does this adequately. In fact, the Redbook is so like the Register in function and content, that its appearance at the beginning of Sophomore year is little short of redundant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Redbook Trial | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

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