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...Harvard seven is entered against teams from Amherst, McGill, New Hampshire, Williams, Yale, and Dartmouth. The competition is expected to be the keenest in years...

Author: By John C. Cobb nd, | Title: Skiing Made Official Minor Sport As Crimson Schussmen Race at Dartmouth | 2/9/1940 | See Source »

...keenest, most widespread quotation hunt in the history of a nation of ardent quotation pullers and hunters raged last week all over the British Empire. King George started it by winding up his globe-circling Christmas Day broadcast to his peoples thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indoor Sportsmanship | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...pound group lacks a single outstanding man, but there the competition for the first team is probably the keenest of all. In fact, it may not be settled definitely all year. Veteran Pete Illman has a slight edge over Bill Tyng and Harry Tine, a Junior and Sophomore respectively, but he will have to be on his toes to keep it. The close scrap for top honors here will probably bring about lots of improvement in the division all year long. Competition of this sort, as is provided by many men in other classes who are not quite good enough...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

Left untouched was the question at keenest issue now: whether labor unions as such may be prosecuted under the Sherman Act.† The Chief Justice said the question was not presented, despite the milkwagon driver defendants. Thus President William Green of the American Federation of Labor found no clue in the Supreme Court decision to the future of his building-trade unions-now widely indicted in the Justice Department's drive against trade restraints in the construction industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Milk | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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