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After that it got all bad. Rutgers and Princeton were overwhelmingly superior, bludgeoned almost identical 31 to 7 and 33 to 7 blastings, and shoved into oblivion any last lingering dreams of a winning season...

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: '47 Football Success Was Fun While It Lasted | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...program is a well integrated, closely knit unit. Taken as a whole it would work for the best interest of that amorphous character, the consumer. It would promote that ubiquitous concept, the public good. If it is pressured into oblivion, even more drastic measures may be required at some date in the not too far distant future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The People's Choice | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chaperon Shackle | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

Unlike student governments, which irritate their way into oblivion through such democracy-in-action as campus disciplinary courts, or, on the other hand, purely honorific instruments of the Dean's Office bearing no appreciable influence, the Council stands in a position where it can strike into educational problems with Faculty attention and an awakening student public's respect...

Author: By Sellg S. Harrison, | Title: Councils 'New Look' stirs Action on College Problems | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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