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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago market researcher dug up last week this 1944 note from Senator Harry S. Truman: "Replying to your questionnaire regarding [political] polls, I am not familiar with them, don't know anything about them, and have no opinion on them except that most of them are inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Steady On | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...interesting thing about these schools is that they always have a tonic effect on the girls. The results are just what everybody except the headmistress and the founder would hope for. At least they were in the case of the one Mary Burnham girl whose history I am up on. She now requires frequent large doses of scotch, wears her hair over one eye, and believes in Dartmouth weekends. And she goes to Connecticut College for Women, where they have plenty of telephones...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...game today McGill hopes to avenge and 8 to 1 drubbing administered by the Crimson last season at Montreal when Harvard overwhelmed every player except Lambrey...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Squash Team Opposes McGill in Debut Today | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...years ago, Charlie Hudder led a Crimson aquatic squad to its most recent undefeated season. This winter, Captain Jerry Gorman may pull off the same stunt. Backed by all of last year's team except Larry Miner and Hank Arthur in the 440 and Milt Busby in the 100-yd. freestyle, his squad may hit clear water all season...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Varsity Swimmers, Stronger than Ever, Striving for Perfect Season | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...smooth going all last year for the Crimson mermen except for Yale's decisive triumph in the grand finale of the unbeaten season. The school from New Haven, no pun intended, paddled past Ulen's proteges 62 to 13. Only close meet of the season came when Dartmouth succumbed 43 to 32 as a result of a last minute Crimson triumph in the relay. Princeton was building a new pool last year and had no team. In 1946, however, the Nassau relay squad placed in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and they may easily be a surprise threat in the East this...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Varsity Swimmers, Stronger than Ever, Striving for Perfect Season | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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