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Gauding closely, the home contingent slowly gave ground to the Indian quintet until the opening of the second half, when a Crimson scoring spree carried to within three points of the victors. Jack Carroll, brilliant Hanover forward, single-handedly repulsed this foray; and two later rallies, with right-handed heaves that floated through the meshes from every angle on the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN CAGERS TOP FRESHMEN | 3/7/1942 | See Source »

...husband's Cornish estate. She is assisted in her intrigue by one of those button-mouthed little men-servants whose lines, always the wittiest in the play, terminate in a dry "my lady." With the pirate, Dona forgets her inept domesticity in a mischievous piratical foray against her dunderhead neighbors, and in the 17th-Century equivalent of a long weekend at Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull's-Eye for Bovarys | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin set himself to answer. "The Pacific Fleet," said he, "is not capable of conducting a major foray today against Japan." He added guardedly: "Of one thing we can be sure-the Navy is not idle." This reassurance would have carried more force if Mr. Baldwin had not promptly followed it with another: "We can lose this war. . . . Far too few of us understand that. . . ." Confusion was confounded when the Navy posted a bulletin in Pearl Harbor. It read: "The United States Navy is still supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Fleet? | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Toward the end of the winter, the First made its final foray: a 14-day dash, well southeast of Cuba. Howlin' Mad was satisfied with the results, with the outfit in general. It was time to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: General Smith Does a Job | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...game was the Penn, and it was the first time this season that the team had scrimmaged on a regulation field. Despite this the stickmen led during the first half and only went down to defeat by a score of 5 to 2. Bill Ierardi was injured in this foray after doing extremely well at midfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE LOSSES FOR STICKMEN | 4/8/1941 | See Source »

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