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Early in the first half, Eddie Davis got possession of a loose ball a scant four inches from the Crimson goal line to quell one McGill rally, and time ran out when the Canadians threatened to tie it up in the final minutes...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Ruggers Trim McGill by 3-0 Score | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Emergency medical measures to quell a flood of dysentery that struck Radcliffe yesterday were put into operation by Annex health officials last night. Normal college routine collapsed at Whitman Hall, hardest hit by the plague, when 22 percent of the residents were forced indoors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Strains Facilities To Caulk Dysentery Deluge | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

Though hardly a victory bonfire, the conflagration brought martini-drinking cocktailers pouring from the Phoenix and Iroquois Clubs, and they proceeded to swarm over equipment to cheer on the fire department in the efforts to quell the blaze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Chipp's Draws 500 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Insecure Guilt. Peace was not and never would be a serene and beautiful woman watching children at play. Peace at best was a squinting sentinel or a farmer building a fence or a man walking the hills with an urgent message which might quell or check or soften hatred. Peace at its worst was the smug illusion of safety-or else it was a panic flight, more terrible than war, away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chestnut Tree | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...seventh, 13 men came to the plate for the Eagles, six drawing bases on balls and four banging out singles off Godin and Herb Merser. Before Barry Turner arrived to quell the uprising, a succession of nine big B.C. runs had trooped across the plate. That made the score 11 to 0, and that's the way it remained when darkness brought a merciful end to the proceedings an inning later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Overwhelms Varsity Nine, 11-0; Freshmen, Jayvees Battle to 3-3 Tie | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

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