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Cassovia was led by Renata Janusova, a 6-4 force majeur who netted 27 points in the winning cause. Vladimira Denaiskova and Tatiana Komarova tallied 20 points apiece; indeed, all three Slovaks exerted serious pressure on both Harvard's defense and the P.A. announcer's election...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: Euro Hoops | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

...Northdrift: the November Handicap, at Manchester, England, on a muddy track and in a fog so thick that no one except the jockeys saw the middle of the race. To the dismay of speculators in the $10,000,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, the Aga Khan withdrew his favorite, Ut Majeur, just before the start, because he thought Ut Majeur's weight handicap, 43 lb. greater than Northdrift's, was too much for a slippery track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...employ. We are not. therefore, concerned with the opinions of far-distant newspapers as to this arrangement which is of importance to the people of Kansas City's own territory, many of whom hope it will be the means whereby an unbalanced newspaper situation born of jorce-majeur will gradually be corrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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