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Harvard hopes for victory in the forthcoming series with Yale faded Saturday afternoon when the best pitching the Crimson could offer was not able to quell a slugging Holy Cross nine, and when the Crimson continued their season-long hitting slump against Rookie Gene O'Connell of the Crusaders...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...Wisconsin) explained: "Up until this point what was essentially culture, what was essentially civilizing has never been lost. Rome when she conquered Greece took over much that was best of the Greek civilization.. . . The Nazis' attitude today is the only one which has definitely set out to quell other cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rockefeller Brotherhood | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Within the twinkling of an eye, the Cambridge police appeared on the scene armed with nightsticks, machetes, battle-axes, and a couple of French seventy-fives. With their customary fortitude and wisdom, they managed to quell the "disturbance" with only a few casualties. But since then, the U. T. has held no more "stagsmoker with eight (8) acts of vaudeville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

Sparked by Captain Dave Ives and Herky Herskovits, Coach Jack Carr's soccer eleven came from behind to quell a threatening Tufts uprising with a 4 to 1 triumph in the season's opening tilt on the Business School Field, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS OPEN WITH 4-1 WIN OVER JUMBOS | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...quell the "quite inaccurate" publicity accorded these rules, Dame Gwynne-Vaughan gave a Women Journalists' Jamboree last week at Brighton, but added little to ATS lore beyond stating: "The qualities sought in a young ATS officer include something of the motherliness of the matron in a boys' school. The girls bring their troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Rules for ATS | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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