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Woolston's three points broke up a 42-all tie, and held up against a furious Cornell last-minute drive led by its star sophomore, Lou Jordan. He scored on a drive in, with 50 seconds remaining, to make the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Beats Cornell; Hockey Team Downs Middlebury | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography. At the end of an hour of furious scribbling, it is virtually impossible for most students to collect their thoughts enough to ask an intelligent question. Even if a relevant question does occur to them in mid-lecture, it is highly likely that it will slip their minds in the fury of transcription...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stimulation or Stenography? | 12/11/1956 | See Source »

...were conferring a blessing on the spectators. His blue eyes narrow, he inches his left foot back toward the center of the circle like a burglar feeling his way down off a porch roof in the dark. Suddenly he ducks low. His eyes squint almost shut, and with a furious burst of energy he scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across the circle. The shot seems to explode from his hand to the sound of a monumental grunt. Fully three-quarters of Parry's body winds up leaning across the boundary of the ring, but his balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great White Whale | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Chagrined, the Gophers ground their way back. Half a dozen times they pounded into Iowa territory; half a dozen times they bumbled away the ball game. Minnesota passes that would have made the difference were intercepted. Up front, Iowa's furious linemen jolted Gopher ball carriers into disastrous fumbles. For all their errors, the Gophers had the edge in first downs, 16-11, in rushing yardage, 232-181, in passing yardage, 71-32. But when the gun ended the game, they were behind in the only statistics that count. The score: Iowa 7. Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rematch in the Rose Bowl | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of State Julio Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed, nine persons wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: By a Landslide | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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