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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moosilauke, known familiarly as "Dartmouth's Mountain," the club has set up 14 miles of ski trails with "Hell's Highway" one of the steepest runs in New England. Out on the golf course are 13 more miles of ski trails, a 1200 foot tramway, and two mammoth jumps. The Outing Club is probably one of the most active outdoor groups in the country...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Dartmouth Men Live Sociable, Woodsy Life Undergrads Learn Poise in Liquory, Girl-Soaked Weekends | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...clusive carfull of B. U. students paid a surprise visit to Cambridge shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, leaving a trail of red paint and posters proclaiming a mammoth B. U. football rally tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. U. Vandals Daub Houses | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...Charge Specifically." The technical purpose of the inquiry was to find out, if possible, why the Government had not yet-two years after the war-got any return whatever on the $18 million it invested in Howard Hughes's mammoth wooden flying boat; and why it had received only one unusable aircraft for the $22 million it sank in Hughes's XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane. But there was another more pressing point, and Senator Brewster went rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Duel under the Klieg Lights | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...frequently held the main stairway with a fire hose against the minions of the law, now caters to elderly ladies crocheting in the lobby. Elsewhere along the river conditions were not up to par either, Small crafts of all kinds were in abundance, but the mammoth yachts of old, from the great three-masted schooners to the nearocean liners of the more opulent old grads, were still in the moth balls in which they have lanquished since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brilliant Pitching Duel Goes to Yale | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

...John Ringling North and assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns assure enough show time for any calliope fan to consume peanuts, popcorn, and pink cotton candy to his heart's content. If by the end of four hours he hasn't forgotten his finals altogether, he deserves a well-lighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

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