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...previous season, however, was a different story. Undaunted by losses to the Staten Island Cricket Club, a team of Bostonian West Indians, and a loss to Princeton, the Crimson came back to crush Yale in the final match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

...comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pressure Metals | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...against the state (i.e., 'Stalin). The technique of confession was now brought to its highest point. Revolutionaries of the toughest fiber yielded easily to Vishinsky's interrogation. "You son of a pig and a bull," he shouted at Bolshevik Theorist Bukharin. In his summing up, he cried: "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains! We cannot leave such people alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Devil's Advocate | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...intermission, the young man and his girl got caught in the crush on the way upstairs to the bar-he had never seen so many jewels and furs in his life-and only just managed to get Scotch-and-soda (at $1.00 each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man at the Opera | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...wing Combat answered by attacking the U.S.: "I would say the stock of the U.S. has never fallen lower, whereas that of France is rising visibly . . . I would say that if Germany has really become so soon a confidential partner, one should not have been so stupid as to crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Report on France | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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