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Chuck Glynn is the fourth man. He played first-string center last year until shelved by an injury. Even with a cast on the injured hand, he was used on offense by Dick Harlow. Chuck is back now, minus the cast, and intends to outfight his three competitors for the starting job. He started getting into shape at his New York home this summer a month before fall practice opened. Like O'Brien, Stone, and Hickey, he may be used as a defensive line-backer this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Centers Battle For Varsity Starting Berth | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere are born in the towns and bred in the streets. Yet out of these streets came the men who could outlast the Arabs in the desert, who could outfight the Japanese in the forests, who flew above the birds and dived below the whales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ARCHANGELS IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...that Germany was not equipped to fight a long war and has been forced to live upon her military capital since the failure to win a decision in 1941? How much of the German decline has been due to the fact that the Russians have learned to outsmart and outfight them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Maiden's Soldier | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...that time they have made 5,238 operational sorties, in fighter sweeps and escorting high-flying Fortresses over France and the Low Countries. Their records have led Major General Ira Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, to boast that the Army now has an airplane which can outfight the Focke-Wulf 190, top German high-altitude fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Said Peter Stanford of his cruiser: "She would outfight the standard cruiser of today in every way, and would restore to the fleet the logical balance of a ship to fulfill a logical duty that has been lacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Tactically Logical Cruiser | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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