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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handling of Jim Lowell, the speed of John White, and a crowd of non-starters who play as much and as good football as the first string. HARVARD '51 YALE '51 Bender LER Alexander Kristoplk LTR Clemens Coyne LGR Masters O'Brien C Wooten Rosenau RGL Beggs Sltter RTL Quirk Callahan REL Gant Lowell QB Eden Bottenfield LHR Peters West RHL Tisdale White FB Lohnes

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Eleven Hits Bulldog Pups Today | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...Boston College, Coach Freddy Maguire is expected to use either Dan O'Brien, who set back the Crimson with only five hits in the Eagles victory last week, or Bob Quirk, who pitched B.C. to its opening game victory over Brown...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Boston College Visits Varsity Nine Today | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...turns out to be a fizzle in the play, so Adam creates a more romantic and lovable woman, played by Jane Burgwall of Simmons College '48. HDC explained that this is not intended as a slur on the amorous qualifications of Radcliffe girls in general, but merely a quirk of casting. The third woman in "Adam" is played by Eleanor Millard, Radcliffe '48, who has done much work for Idler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Announces Cast For November Show, "Adam the Creator" | 10/23/1946 | See Source »

...exists a disparity which the world must notice. . . . The Nűrnberg judgment will look well or ill in history according to the future behavior of the four nations responsible for it. . . . If they behave as nations have invariably behaved till now, it will seem no more than the quirk of an oddly assorted bunch of victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Forgive Us Our Sins . . . | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Georgia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Fruit | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

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