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...game was the varsity's poorest of the year, but it proved one thing. As Harry Sacks goes the Crimson. The high -scoring forward was bottled up by Phil Powell and D.C.'s collapsing defense and didn't score a point until the third quarter. He ended up with only four points for the night, compared to an average of 20 in his previous games...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: B.C. Defeats Quintet, 73-52; '57 Five Gains Ninth Victory | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

Fortunately, the hockey team met one of the poorest sextets ever produced by Boston University coach Harry Cleverly last night. Otherwise, it might not be facing Boston College in the finals of the Beanpot Tournament at 9 p.m. tonight in the Garden...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Sextet Edges Poor B. U. Team, 3-2 | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

...strikes since 1919. Her unemployment seldom soars above a paltry 20 (in a population of 300,000). As Minister of Wine Culture, the job he likes the best, Connoisseur Bech himself has worked a revolution in Luxembourg's vineyards, whose products were once considered the poorest in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Hardy Perennial | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...feet." Foreign private capital, he said, has done Brazil more harm than good, and if foreign companies do not like the new taxes he plans to impose, "they can leave; it makes no difference." Americans, said Aranha, "are our best friends, but we have always made our poorest business deals with our best friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Take Back Your Mink | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Sanare is an area rich in coffee, fruit and flowers, but its 15,000 farmers are poor because, for lack of roads, the produce must be hauled out inefficiently over mule paths. To remedy this situation, the society last March resolved to buy a roadbuilding tractor. "Even the poorest farmhands gave a bolivar (30^), and one rich man sent 10,000," said Pablo Jose Tamayo, president of the society. "But he who gave 10,000 is neither more nor less the owner than the man who gave only one." Last August, having raised 95,000 bolivars, the Friends ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: A Tractor for Sanare | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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