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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulls of Yale made only one display of weakness, a taunting fumble on their own 13-yard line in the second quarter. Lowell recovered for its brief moment of glory. The subsequent four plays--including three passes--gained a total of one yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Commuters--1948" will be engraved on the cup, which the group won from Harvard Hall, last year's victors. The trophy will be on display in Agassiz House until next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Win Annex Song Contest | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Disregarding cowboy and private detective categories, kiddy programs split up roughly into two main groups: the superman variety, where the more imaginative episodes display a complete absence of reality; the non-super but decidedly All-American type, ranging from Jack Armstrong to Spy King, with plots that are basically conceivable...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: I | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...Republicans were defeated but they are not beaten, and it is for each of us in the ranks to determine our own contributions to the necessary revival. If individually and collectively we display both energy and imagination in the four lean years ahead, then 1952 can in fact be the year of liberation from the selfish and unprincipled mediocrity of the present democratic rule. We lost in 1948 because we deserved nothing more than defeat. Now we have four years to mend our ways, to support new leaders and a new program of an articulate and creative party of enlightened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington Sees Need for Revision In Republican Goals and Strategems | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...copper-nickel alloy. Oppenheimer built a furnace, made his alloy, completed the study with sufficient precision for Bridgman to publish the findings. Says Bridgman: "A very intelligent student. He knew enough to ask questions." After hours, at the Bridgman home, the conversation ranged far & wide, giving Oppenheimer chances to display his often irritating erudition. Once Bridgman identified a picture as a temple at Segesta, Sicily, built about 400 B.C. Young Oppenheimer quickly set his professor straight: "I judge from the capitals on the columns that it was built about 50 years earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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