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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five out of 16 Annex dormitories and off-campus houses have turned in 100 percent contributions to the Community Fund Drive, Betty Heaton '51, Community Service head, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Fund Hits $1200 | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Throughout the game Kirkland blocking and tackling was vastly more effective than Eliot's; the latter relied for defense on a hitherto unused 4-4-2-1 lineup with an over-and-under-shifting line, and for offense on Jim Rossiter who carried the ball on over 75 percent of the offensive plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Defeats Eliot 21-0, Grabs House Grid Title | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

...complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?' ... I feel constrained to inquire whether the country can today afford a surcharge of 100 percent for such a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

With only fifty percent of the College reached by canvassers, the Combined Charities Drive had filled more than $17,000 of its $25,000 goal by last night. Every man not contacted will eventually be asked to contribute before the drive deadline this evening the amount he originally pledged. It is unlikely that the entire College can be covered by tonight, James D. Cameron, Jr. '46, campaign chairman announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half of College Reached in Charity Drive Ending Today | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Gaulle Sweep Result of French Communist 'Fear' | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

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