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...trackman most likely to succeed except for the threat presented by Barney Ewell of Penn State, who won both dashes and the broad jump last year. Last Saturday Pirnie, backed by a stiff breeze, did the furlong in 20.7 seconds. His best unaided time was 21.8 in the Dartmouth fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUGHTON IS ELECTED 1942 TRACK LEADER | 5/28/1941 | See Source »

...continued by saying that although she was an interventionist she still thought that "the very concept of war--profiting by others' troubles--is completely immoral. It's the immorality of being tickled to death seeing someone mutilated. After all in the worst Harvard-Yale fray no Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ClareBoothe Demands Food For Five Small Democracies For Five Small Democracies | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

...hard-fought Freshman tilt was not decided until the closing minutes when the Big Green wiped out a five point deficit following Bill Snyder's ejection from the fray on fouls. Jack Torgan, with nine points, was the high scorer of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Dartmouth Team Ties Pucksters, 3-3; Crimson Hoopsters Lose 63 to 47 to Big Green | 3/6/1941 | See Source »

...some of the nation's most influential forces to convince them of a need for war. We believe that if the destroyers and the combat planes which we rush to Britain in the next two months are not enough, we must not tempt Mars by advancing to the fray ourselves. We must fall back on our defenses, which are improving with each new increase in production and each new perfection of technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER | 2/12/1941 | See Source »

Milton provided the Freshmen with little or no opposition the following day. Before the fray was over the Yardlings had eight counters to their credit, while O'Neill had his third shutout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frenchmen and Milton Are '44 Puck Victims | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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