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Assuming their place on the bottom rung of the Big Three ladder, the grapplers collapsed before a strong Eli delegation, 19 to 11, at New Haven Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, the Freshmen were swamped by their undefeated Blue rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON GRAPPLERS THROWN FOR 19 TO 11 LOSS BY ELI TEAM | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Magic at Quantico | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Crimson mermen should have no difficulty in taking Greenwood and thus extending for another year the long string of victories Harvard swimmers have rung up against their traditional rivals who hall from Gardner, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Will Engage Greenwood Memorial | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

...TIME'S account described the first week of mass daylight raids in mid-September, when Londoners' reactions showed they were not yet bomb-hardened. They did undoubtedly harden, and they naturally grew cockier when mass daylight raids stopped after the British defense had rung up high daily scores in planes shot down. Far from cocky is the frank recital below of a man whose home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...past ten years Ashurst has scarcely stirred from Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make any difference. But last week, when the primary poll was counted, the curtain was rung down on the long Senatorial career of Henry Fountain Ashurst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ashurst Out | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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