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Although the hockey round robin tournament will not be taken up again till next Monday when four more evening games will be played, the basketball contests will continue this afternoon...

Author: By Lawrence G. Reisz, | Title: Adams, Dudley, Winthrop Lowell Win Hockey Games | 12/8/1942 | See Source »

Colonel Karl Robin Bendetsen last March began evacuating 110,599 Japanese and Nisei from a 150-mile West Coast strip to 16 temporary assembly centers in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona. This month he finished his seven-day-a-week job. He had placed all his charges in the care of the civilian War Relocation Authority in ten huge, permanent projects in California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Medal for Moving | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...schedule for House football is to consist of 28 games resulting from a round robin in which each House plays the other once. Under this arrangement each House will play two games a week...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: HOUSE GRID YEAR WILL START TODAY | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

...always good and not always bad, the gremlins show traits of character reaching down through the centuries in fairyland* between the profane and mundane world and the world of the supernatural and religious. The fenodyree (Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: It's Them | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Debtor. In Paducah, Ky., a robin to whom E. N. Smith had fed crumbs every day turned up at the back door with a dollar bill in its beak, dropped it on the porch, flew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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