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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth's traditionally weak graplers followed the pattern of their predecessors, winning but one bout, drawing two, and dropping three by falls. Brown did considerably better and but for a default in the 121-pound class, where the Bruin contestant failed to make weight, might have shaded the Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Swimmers Douse Columbia, 62-13; Wrestlers Throw Dartmouth, 25-7; Brown, 19-15 | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

Headlined "Democratic spirit lives on at Yale," the article didn't touch on leftist groups until the very end, when it mentioned without comment a Socialist Club and a new-default AYD branch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trib, After Unmasking Communism in Every Corner of University, Breaks Camp for Yale | 1/15/1948 | See Source »

Like M.I.T., Wesleyan could not produce a wrestler capable of beating one of Chief Boston's 1947 brood. Taking two bouts by falls, one by default and the rest by comfortable decisions, the varsity wrestling team rolled to a 30 to 0 win over the team from Middletown yesterday afternoon in Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Tip Wesleyan for Shutout Win | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...clam-like wrestler in the 145-pound class and ended up winning an uninteresting 3 to 0 decision, while at 155 Sandy Jones took a default when his opponent left the mat with a dislocated elbow. Don Louria had little trouble with Wesleyan's highly-rated captain Frank Bowles in 165 and topped him 11 to 6, in the best bout of the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Tip Wesleyan for Shutout Win | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...Black. During the war the 64-year-old Metropolitan had become the world's leading opera house by default. It would have to earn the honor now, with European houses back in the running. Financially, the Met had never been in better shape. It was even a few thousand dollars in the black. The 3,459-seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Up | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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