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...carries with it many sordid trappings, but few more obnoxious than the faulty memories of the participants. They do little to clarify issues or to reach new truth while they do much to becloud facts and to prolong old enmities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

...period, Yale the second by a score of 3-1; the playoff game ran into three extra periods but ended with the score still 2-2. While appreciating Yale's sportsmanlike willingness to continue the series into a fourth game, the Harvard Athletic Committee has reluctantly determined not to prolong its hockey season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD-YALE ICE SUPREMACY WILL REMAIN UNDECIDED | 3/15/1930 | See Source »

...STOP!" shouted Comrade Litvinov, blazing-eyed. Rather than prolong a scene which in 1914 might easily have led to war, M. Herbette stopped, then frigidly withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honor Sullied, Puissance Mocked | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Morris Fishbein, 40, editor of the Association's medical journals, vigorously thwacked the widespread idea that operating on the gonads or any other procedure will prolong life. Said he: "A tissue that has died can no more be restored to life than can new elasticity be put into a pair of worn-out suspenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Convention | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...President-Elect had planned to leave Washington last week, was compelled to prolong his stay indefinitely. His proposed Southern vacation will probably not include a trip to the West Indies, though a visit to Havana is still scheduled. Belle Isle, Fla., is the Hoover southern base during his Washington stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Home | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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