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...noble correspondents as Caesar and Cicero. But like any enterprising newspaper, Acta prints a good deal more than spot news. There are such circulation boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Soon: Cleopatra | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...with ten seconds remaining, Bramhall stole the ball back again, and the ensuing scufile gave possession to the Crimson under the Yale basket. Harvard's four remaining attempts failed, however; and the gam, the series, and the season were over. TOP IVY SCORERS FG F P Rockwell, Harvard 73 43 189 Osbourn, Yale 60 57 177 Lyon, Penn 57 59 173 Smith, Harvard...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Quintet, Swimmers Show Well Despite New Haven Setbacks | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...with the student who does care about football, in general, and who does not think it should be abandoned that this article is concerned. It is to the person who will be either playing the gam in the Yale Bowl on Saturday or who will be watching his friends play, that...

Author: By Burton VAN Yort, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 11/19/1942 | See Source »

...files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Doctor | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Philadelphia 14, Washington 4, 2nd gam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/31/1941 | See Source »

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