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Again in the third quarter the Bunnies came close, blocking a Kirkland punt and taking over on the 20, but four plays failed to advance the ball. The final frame was marked by frantic Leverett attempts to complete forward passes mingled with runs from the famous Bunny triple-flanker formation, but Kirkland held fast and was driving deep into enemy territory as the game ended, following another interception on the 30 by the omnipresent Bell...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Deacons Capture House Grid Title, Clip Bunnies, 7-0 | 11/16/1946 | See Source »

...national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Worms' Turn | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...frantic score by Lenny Bernstein, the three "insecure people" (the integrated ones never appeared) rolled on the floor, kissed indiscriminately, tussled. Then the two men tossed Nora Kaye back & forth like a shuttlecock until she fell sobbing on the floor (on opening night, she went down so hard that many seat-holders thought she had sprained her ankle). At this point, Ballerina Kaye cried out "Stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Serious & Sad | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Wellspring of the clean-up-M.I.T. campaign lay in a fall indoctrination course designed to imbue freshmen with Tech tradition. The fledglings filled the air with frantic hisses at the mention of staid old Harvard bridge by Charles E. Locke, a professor emeritus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen Want to Rechristen Their Harvard Bridge; Cambridge Solon Wonders if M.I.T. Is Here to Stay | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...except a callous few who wantonly litter the steps of Widener, Sever, and Emerson with countless cigarette butts where uneducated squirrels are liable to find and sample the "filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that she and other families were thinking seriously of finding more suitable homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butts to the Squirrels | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

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