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...After a hard-fought victory over Lowell last week Adams was handed a 5 to 2 lacing by Dunster, and the icemen from down by the Charles moved into second place by virtue of the rout, a half game behind the leading Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP TAKES LEAD OVER HOUSE PUCKMEN BY DEFEATING DUDLEY | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

Little Logan, "a gorilla for screaming," was converted in a bathroom by his six-year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanctification | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Four of his Yale players left the field with doctors during the hard-fought encounter, tackle Brooks, end Dyess, and halfbacks Wilson and Burr, but all appeared okay in the dressing-room. Yale played into the third quarter without a single substitution...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Downs Stubborn Bulldog, 7-0 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Stooge Cárdenas-and that was all people thought he was-to smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Battling till the end, the rugby team lost a hard-fought match to Princeton at Soldiers Field on Saturday, 11-6. The outcome of the contest was uncertain until the last minute of play when Princeton scored the winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER RUGGERS QUELL CRIMSON FIFTEEN 11-6 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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