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...spite of the war, the professional hockey season opened last week with hardly a crimp in it. This is remarkable since 90% of the big-time hockey players in the U.S. are Canadians...
Star of the trip was Goalie George lianford, who put a crimp in every attack he met. Making seemingly impossible saves in each of the three games, he shone in the Maryland contest when for three of the four periods he held Maryland's vaunted team...
Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...
...Marvin nearly put a crimp in the Alumni Association's plans for tonight's dinner, when La Guardia, scared by the thought of so many specifies in one evening, almost decided not to come to Cambridge...
When World War II put a crimp in British horse racing and thereby practically dissolved the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, many a U. S. citizen wondered who would take over the Irish Hospitals' clientele. For weeks now an increasingly large number of U. S. citizens have stopped wondering. This week officials of the newly organized Nicaraguan National Charity Sweepstakes will draw from the 3,000,000 tickets sold in the U. S., will pay off on the outcome of the Widener Cup race, to be held at Florida's Hialeah Park March...