Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bangs & Tangos. "The year 1913," a French critic once wrote, "was distinguished by the arrival in Paris of Foujita and the tango." For a while they were almost equal sensations. An ambitious art student who had thrice been refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...
...Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets...
These will include in their numbers Captain Levi Jackson, a pepper guy practically without equal in the Ivy League, who has made up for the partial loss of his phenomenal speed by emerging as a fine pass receiver; Nadherny, who always goes through a Harvard line as if those red shirts were so many muletas; and Jim Fuchs and Charlie Keller, two backs who also have been "sick" recently...
Winthrop and the Davenport Hybrids have equal records, but the Puritans will need a lot stronger defense to check Davenport than the one which crumbled before Eliot on Monday...
...which stymies the folks who like to make predictions on the basis of comparative scores, for today's contenders appear just about equal. Both have suffered one overwhelming defeat; Harvard was stronger defensively and weaker offensively against Dartmouth, stronger offensively and weaker defensively against Brown...