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...team let 220 of them go to the ordinary student buyers and the CRIMSON, calmed down. One undergraduate paid $25 for the first place in the line to buy tickets at the H.A.A. They had troubles in those days, too, with scalpers, and the Springfield police caught counterfeit tickets at the gates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 YEARS AGO WHEN HARVARD, ELI FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

...cease his operations. He spent millions of English pounds (reportedly counterfeit) softening up Iraqi officers. He met some of them in Damascus last winter, and by April had evolved a thoroughly pro-Nazi native organization in the Iraqi Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Battle Joins | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational campaign directed by hamhanded, sharp-nosed Frank John Wilson, S. S. Chief, has shown thousands of merchants how to distinguish the uneven engraving and threadless paper of counterfeit bills. An 18-minute movie named "Dan gerous Dollars" produced by the S. S., also telecast and made into a Paramount short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: Funny Money | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...chills and jitters of malaria. He swallowed several strong doses of quinine and was promptly seized with paroxysms very like malaria's. He tried quinine on his wife, son and four daughters: same results. Dr. Hahnemann decided that quinine cured malaria because it produced in the body a "counterfeit disease" with the same symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homeopathy | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...gain his desired effect, or again, that Corot was always successful in the creation of his shimmering landscapes. It should be understood that even the greatest artists must, at some time, have produced paintings which were badly done and which consequently stand a chance of being mistakenly branded as counterfeit...

Author: By John Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

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