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When it came to hurling a sleek, eight-engined bomber halfway around the world, nobody could beat the Ai,r Force. Knocking out a couple of machine-gun nests on a scrubby Korean hillside was something else again...
...Chamonix group was close to a refuge hut at Grands-Mulets, more than halfway up, when Leader Payot untied himself from the main party to move a little ahead. A sudden gust swept him over a crevasse and buried him under 20 feet of snow. Two hours later a walkie-talkie notice of his death filtered down to his wife and two children in the valley. By radio the word came back from the French army ordering all men off the mountain...
Harvard whitewashed the Engineers, 9 to 0, in last year's game, but the outlook this year is not quite so bright. The Engineers are undefeated in their last four games, while the Crimson has dropped four of its last five. Harvard now stands only one place above M.I.T., halfway down in the New England league standings...
...reader or audience sooner or later falls into the boredom of the overstimulated. If Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and possibly You Never Can Tell are excepted, the law of diminishing returns begins to work halfway through his plays. There are wonderful moments in Man and Superman and St. Joan, but comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments...
...Halfway through the second stanza, the Tigers roared deep into Harvard territory. Aided by luck in front of the goal, the Orange and black scored twice within a minute and a half to set up a 2 to 0 halftime lead...