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Last week, from the mists of the North Atlantic, naval guns roared a message to the U.S. The guns belonged to the ill-fated German battle cruiser Bismarck, and hapless H.M.S. Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Stormy Man, Stormy Weather | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Blue hold a league record of two victories and eight defeats. The only wins were over Princeton, 49 to 46 and 39 to 34, while Columbia, Penn, Cornell, and Dartmouth have each grabbed two wins from the hapless Elis...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowse, | Title: FAVORED CRIMSON WILL MEET NEW HAVEN FIVE TOMORROW | 3/7/1941 | See Source »

...years the catalogue has listed courses, officers, and faculty members according to academic seniority, and the courses have been listed in a manner that has challenged the ingenuity of decades of hapless students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CATALOGUE RECOGNIZES PROGRESS, USES ALPHABET | 12/17/1940 | See Source »

...well-oiled Crimson field hockey machine crushed a hapless band of Elis in field hockey, 3 to 0, at Wheaton yesterday afternoon. The game was nip-and-tuck for two minutes, but then superior Harvard strategy began to tell. In the last period the Blue-bellies turned place blue with fright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue-bellies Defeated 3 to 0 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Ollie Gates sparked the Elegant Elephants from Eliot to a 3 to 1 victory over the hapless Funsters in the touch legaue, and Adams walked all over Winthrop in scoring their 9 to 0 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS, LEVERETT TAKE HOUSE GAMES | 11/8/1940 | See Source »

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