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Radcliffe's Student Government showed the way to Gordian knot-slicing Saturday when it ended in a few words the clouds of controversy that had been hanging over the results of its most recent vote. Instead of wasting time with legalistic arguments, the Student Government officers made certain that every possible doubt would be cleared up by calling for a second vote on all three of the issues in question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Unraveled | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...blustery storm out of the South bothered Harry Truman, he gave no outward sign of it. But inwardly he felt some sinking sensations last week. They came from another storm: a 40-knot northeast wind that whipped up ten-foot waves and tossed, the presidential yacht Williamsburg around like a cockleshell under a bathtub faucet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Exposure | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Funsters were hot whom it counted as they overcame a 22 to 10 first quarter deficit to knot the score at 26-all at half-time and forge ahead in the third stanza. In the other scheduled contest, Eliot defeated Leverett, winding up on top of a 43 to 32 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Regains First Place Draw In Court League | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

Walt McCurdy regained a flash of his mid-season mastery to help knot Saturday's photofinish tilt, and Bill Prior and John Rockwell looked better than ever. They'll need to be. After tonight it will be all work, all Ivy League. Probably Starting Lineups HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Hauptfuhrer lf Hazon Rockwell rf Burke Prior c Kubachka Brady lg Barker Gannon rg Sullivan

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: Quintet Faces Springfield at Garden | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...last-minute attempt to unravel the aid-to-China knot, the Senate Appropriations Committee last week summoned the man best qualified to present some firsthand facts. He was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his China mission had been locked up in State Department files ever since his return 14 weeks ago (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gesture | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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