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...once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...
University Boat Club Blues eked out a hard-fought 4-1 victory over the Varsity team A squash team yesterday on University courts...
...companies, among them U. S. Steel. Only a handful of concerns, including Tom M. Girdler's Republic Steel Corp. and other embattled members of the "Little Steel" entente, have held out against the S. W. O. C. attack, and only then at the cost of a long and hard-fought strike...
...Lawson Little ceased playing in it. Last week they had a hard time reviving their excitement even when it became apparent that an American was going to win. The American was Robert Sweeny, 25. a long-legged, wavy-haired Oxonian, who learned his golf in England where he has lived for ten years. Watched by his friend Cinemactress Merle Oberon. Sweeny put out Wehrle in the round of eight and a Staffordshire miner named Charles Stowe in the semi-finals the same day. Next day a hard-fought 36-hole final against a 50-year-old Ulsterman named Lionel Munn...
...hard-fought game which resolved into a goalies' battle, the Freshmen were turned back by the Brown Freshmen 1-0. The only score of the game came early in the fourth period. Chief thorn in the Yardling side was Barney, the Brown net-minder...