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They had to pour a new foundation, rip out and rebuild a chimney, install new floors and beams, and generally tear the place apart, outside and in. The group moved in October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rebuild 'Unlivable' House | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

Another Saturday, another track meet. Holy Cross and Boston University are the targets for this afternoon, and if the Crimson doesn't rip through them like a 45 caliber slug going through tissue paper, a lot of people will be surprised. Harvard hurdler Pat McCormick (above) rates as one of the surer winners...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Track Team Favored Today | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

...steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Little Gentlemen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Everywhere we have gone, we have had a rip-roaring time," the Britishers declared yesterday after the Debate Council had shown them the College. "We've sung "The Whiffenpoof Song' with the Yale debaters at Mory's, and we had our first glimpse of the Pacific after our match with California, but right here in Cambridge we have been made to feel more at home than anywhere else on the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Britishers Like U.S. from Mory's to Pacific | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...production machine let 'er rip. The unfettered, unguarded U.S. economy turned out an abundance of things such as the country had never known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Gamble | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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