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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Vag's mind flashed a million little things. It came to him that all this hogwash he'd read about your mind's acting like a movie before you kick off was straight stuff. It wasn't the state or the President or God or anything as tangible as that he was thinking of. It was just something about that ship down there. It had to be sunk. It and a hundred more like it. If it, and they, weren't destroyed, and if their men could sacrifice themselves to sink our boats, we were through. If we lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/13/1941 | See Source »

...with a wicked, wavy-edged kris, to a Moro heaven filled with sloe-eyed houris. When the U.S. Army first occupied the Philippines, many a soldier was killed after emptying his .38 into a Moro who kept on coming. So the Army switched to .455, which nearly kick a man's arm off but are no respecters of frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Terror in Jolo | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

George MacClelland tallied the final marker in the last few minutes of the game, galloping 20 yards through the whole Yale team to make the final score read 19 to 0. Fisher's kick was blocked...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: Crimson Jayvees Run Wild Over Blue, 19-0 | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

Yale's soccer captain George Haines broke up a 1-1 deadlock in the final quarter of yesterday's Varsity soccer match with a long looping kick to upset the Crimson eleven 2 to 1 and to knock the bottom out of the Harvard booters' season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE VARSITY BOOTERS WIN IN FINAL QUARTER | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...that the Oregon eleven had every confidence of winning--and all through the first quarter things looked Blue for Harvard as the Steers went for long gains on their famous 'Are you hurt?' play. On the second play of the quarter Oregon made their first score on a drop-kick from the 15 yard line, but they didn't hold the lead for very long as the Harvard team fought right back and F. C. Church '21, running as hard as any halfback could run, dashed around short end and carried the ball for a touchdown after which Arnold Horween...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: SCRIBE BOOSTS CRIMSON FOR ROSE BOWL GAME | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

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