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...muddy field would raise havoc with complicated Harvard offensive operations, but Yale passing would obviously suffer considerably. In rain or snow, the Harlowmen should pack just a bit too much running punch for the New Haven Invaders...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

Today, with Europe blowing itself into a lost civilization, with the backlash of our own frontier expansion playing havoc with our economic traditions, free enterprise in the glorious world of business seems to have lost its glamor. The bulls and the bears that once roamed The Street have been harnessed. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller are fast growing into legends of another age. And the eyes of the bewildered undergraduate look for security instead of pots of gold at the end of every rainbow of fantastic speculation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMOR | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...Insurance Clerk Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End, St. Helena) gives an insect's-eye view of what happened when the moon got out of whack in 1945, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, all but wiped out Europe by tornado, earthquake and flood. The moon's havoc was less than the human havoc which followed. England, now changed from an island to a landlocked meadow on the fringe of Europe, demanded a "British Corridor" to the sea at Gibraltar, but the Corridor blocked Europe's nations from the oil and metals discovered on the fallen moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moonstruck | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

With the 1928 June graduation about to wreak havoc in the ranks of Harvard's sturdy baseball standard bearers of the last three seasons, along comes one of the most powerful Yardling nines in years to lighten the toll of graduation wreckage. Thirteen wins in fifteen starts is their record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Batters Flash More Power Than Any Yardling Nine Has for Three Years | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...baked southern diamonds and springy turf played havoc with an indoor-trained infield and outfield, and accounted for the dropping of more than one nip-and-tuck slugfest. Weeks ahead of the Crimson players in condition, and playing on home grounds, Tar Heels, Blue Devils, and Middies successively got the breaks to take hard fighting Harvard into camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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