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...Tigers used a six-man attack at the close of the second period, taking out the goalie in a vain effort to narrow the three-point Crimson lead when Coulter drew a two-minute penalty. HARVARD (9) PRINCETON (2) Crocker rw Roberts Farrell c Van Dyke Feloney lw Elsaesser Preston rd Erdman Greeley, R. ld Arthur Yetman g White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pucksters Triumph, 9 to 2, In Tigers' Second Ivy Loss | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

Overseeing the new BCJ administration is Brigadier General Ken R. Dyke's civil information and education section (CIANDE) of Allied Headquarters. Three days after the occupation began, Dyke, a former NBC executive, began clearing the BCJ air. By strict censorship and appointment of the advisory committee, he freed noncommercial BCJ of government domination. He also ordered Japan to build some three million new radio sets to replace worn out sets or those destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: From Sugato to Scarlett | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June, some 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be saved from the river's ravaging floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Between the Green and Yellow | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Willard Van Dyke's tragic study of technological unemployment, Valley Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eye for Fact | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...second, seemingly without warning, we were on the top of the earth dyke looking straight down into the canal, while the boat crews were hurling their boats down the steep slope into the water. As they hit the water, the Scottish sergeant in charge yelled: "O.K., me lads-who is for th'other side-a bob a ride, a bob a ride." And then we were paddling frantically-except for the two who missed their footing and were being dragged out of the icy water. The disgusted sergeant cursed them heartily, but everyone on the boat laughed-a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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