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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most ominous element on the periodical waste paper counter was the tome of the B. J. Field titled "The Prospects of American Capitalism" which appeared to be worth only a nickel, with no takers at closing time...

Author: By Richard W. Wallace, | Title: Prospects of Capitalism Not Worth A Nickel at Widener Clearance Sale | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

M.I.T. will counter with backstroker Bon Dann, breaststroker Bob Polletier, and sprinters Jim Leonard, Carl Mellin, and Jack Searle. Brown and Wesleyan accounted for the two Tech defeats, while its lone win was registered over Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Open at Tech Pool Tonight | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

...Whiskers. He saw, sure enough, that Big Joe had trouble defending against one punch: a counter-right after leading with his left. As a sparring partner of Joe Louis' eleven years ago, he had used that punch to put Big Joe on the floor one day. (Louis doesn't remember ever having been floored in training. Says Walcott: "I knocked Joe down in the very first round with a right hand punch that landed on the whiskers. They paid me $25 and hustled me out of camp for saying that Louis couldn't savvy my style. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Wasn't Afraid | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...continuum of probes and counter-probes which wiseacres call the Student Council's claim to infamy, there emerge at intervals contributions of genuine value representing exceptional thought and thoroughgoing work. Such is the Report of the Special Committee on Class Affairs. Although it will not come up for the Council's official adoption until Monday's scheduled meeting or a possible special session later in the week, the 1948 Nominating Committee has chosen to follow the Report's recommendations in every phase of its proceedings to date. The 30-page content comprises the informed opinion of battle-scarred veterans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a Class by Itself | 12/13/1947 | See Source »

Twelve members of the temporary committee were on the list of nominations released Monday by the nominating committee. The Council agreed that this ran counter to its own Class Committee's recommendation that men appointed to the temporary body in their freshman year not be placed automatically on the Seniors' ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popular Criticism Snags Nominating Machinery of '48 Class Committee | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

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