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...amputee-who has spent much time and money attempting to get help with special equipped autos and better artificial limbs for arm amputees-I say that if the Legion spent 1/100 of the time helping those who need it that they spend politicking . . . they would come nearer expressing the wishes of many vets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Dudley's unbeaten hockey team moved a step nearer the pennant yesterday, blanking previously undefeated Lowell, 4 to 0, at the Boston Skating Club. Neil Howland scored two goals to pace the Commuters to their fifth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commuters Down Bellboy Six, 4-0, To Gain 5th Win | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...Peninsular Campaign was not decisive, but it destroyed several French armies, drained France of much of its trained manpower, softened Napoleon for ultimate defeat in mass land battles (Leipzig and Waterloo) nearer home. It was also no quick war. It took the Duke five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Another Peninsular Campaign | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...General Bennett E. Meyers, cashiered from the Army and sentenced to 20 months to five years for wartime contract graft, walked out of the federal reformatory at Lorton, Va. to face another charge. For 1941 he reported a net income of $3,808.70, but the Government figured it was nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The American Way | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Total enrollment at Radcliffe is expected to drop from 1,270 to 1,245 this term. Eighteen graduate students and 19 undergraduates left the Annex to get married, live nearer their families, or because of low grades. Only two freshmen--an unusually small number according to Ruth Davenport, Registrar--left the Annex as a result of academic difficulties. None of the departing 'Cliffies graduated at mid-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe's Population Drops, Figures Show | 2/7/1951 | See Source »

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