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On July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his band of a dozen nosed their little craft into a winding stream and decided that there, where a river met the lake, would be a good place for another town site. The Yankees built a couple of log cabins and left one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES .& STATES: Cleveland's Planners | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Coming from behind in the closing stages of a see-saw contest, the Crimson nine nosed out the Bowdoin Polar Bears 6 to 5 last Saturday at Soldiers Field to give Harvard as record of two wins and one less for the summer.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Noses Out Bowdoin Team 6-5 | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

Adapted from a 1936 movie called Libeled Lady (starring Jean Harlow), the complicated plot of Easy to Wed is oddly obtrusive for a musical. Van Johnson, whose millions of avid fans were first won by his freckle-nosed, boyish charm, is woefully miscast as a professional wolf who makes a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

With Joe was his friend, lean, long-nosed Harry Bridges, there to negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Politics & Pork Chops | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Dartmouth amassed nineteen points to win the championship, while the Boston A.A., which totaled sixteen, nosed out the Crimson squad by a single point in the struggle for second place.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Third in N.E. Track Meet | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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