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...McLaughry and his boys 100 percent. Every player on the field of the Cambridge Stadium must fool that there is a Dartmouth man squarely behind him. There must BE a Dartmouth man squarely behind him. Another exhibition like last week's will topple Dartmouth to Coach McLaughry's lowest ebb, unless we as a College got right behind the team. Dave Grogan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fresh Football Back Grogan Deplores the Lack of 'Spirit' to Inspire Big Green | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

Twelve-Mile Limit. Protestant missionaries, particularly the Seventh Day Adventists, have done what little they could to curb the mass drunks. Catholic authority over the Indians is at a low ebb because there are so few priests on the altiplano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Evil | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Paced by Britain's triumphant Labor Party, socialism the world over rose to a high-water mark in the immediate postwar years. An ebb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AROUND THE WORLD | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Except for a slight stiffness about the hips and a shorter backswing, he looked like the old Hogan. He was one under par for the first nine holes. When his strength began to ebb on the 13th, he leaned against a tree to pull himself together. On the 15th, he glared momentarily at what sounded like another movie camera. When he discovered it was only a lawn mower, he calmly lined up a 30-foot putt and sank it. His first-round score was 73, only five strokes off the pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ben Comes Back | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Luck & Coordination. In a way, the Sadler's Wells company was blessed with luck. It had arrived in Manhattan at a time when the theater was at its lowest ebb since the war. The hits of last fortnight, Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, and the Lunts in I Know My Love (see THEATER) had not yet opened. Sadler's Wells was the first smash of the 1949-50 entertainment season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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