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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Butch Jordan's aggregation, minus Dave Smith, arrived in Syracuse late yesterday afternoon and then took a bus for Ithaca. Smith's knee and elbow injuries kept him from making the trip, and Dave Coombs will fill his 128-pound position...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Crimson Wrestlers Leave by Air for East Championships | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

Some sports ran out their popularity, while others recurred in a cycle. But the streamlined look of the girl playing the sports has continually progressed. By 1928 the red serge bloomers were well above the knee, and a few years later red pleated shorts trimmed the players' figures. At present simple white tennis dresses gives a clean, crisp look to the gym classes...

Author: By Deborah Labenow, | Title: Annex Gymnasium Marks 50th Year As Basketball, Bowling Top Sports | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...factors that especially aided the Crimson were the ten penalties (including two penalty shots) called against the Tigers and the fact that Princeton's first-string center, Bill Clarkson, was out of the lineup with a knee injury...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Harvard Six Defeats Princeton, 8-6 | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

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