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Strong south winds played havoc with both teams yesterday as the freshman soccer squad battled Medford High School to a 0 to 0 deadlock on the Business School Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Soccer Team Ties Medford, O-0, in Wind | 11/11/1950 | See Source »

...sudden and somewhat unexplainable drop in the number of 'Cliffedwellers getting married will probably play havoc with the statistics inevitably issued each year to the effect that Harvard men marry a greater percentage of Radcliffe women than any other species, collegiate or otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Class of 1950 Has Good Job Hunt Record: Few Getting Married | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

Anyone with any sense at all knows that if we had not gone into Iceland, the Nazis would have, and would have wrought havoc by air attacks on our North Atlantic shipping routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Author Boyer has hit upon a powerful idea for suggesting the havoc that war can leave in children's minds, but he has hardly done more than suggest it. Writing with an economy that amounts to sparseness, he comes closer to achieving a fine scenario than a fine novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Stole Crosses | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Ready Squads." The Russians, who well remember the havoc wrought by Hitler's Panzer divisions, have worked mightily at tank production, now have more tanks in service than the rest of the world's armies combined. In Germany alone, the Reds have at least 4,400 tanks, and in general they are better than any now in regular use by U.S. armored divisions. Most of the tanks in East Germany are 33-ton T-34s null gun), the types used in the Communist attack in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Order of Battle | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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