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Rhode Island defeated traditionally potent Fordham last week and is pointing for the IC4A team championship. Spidery Bob Black, the star of the squad, is the IC4A champion. Less is known about B. U., but the Terrier Freshman team is well-padded with New England and New York schoolboy track accs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depleted Harriers Race Boston U. And Rhode Island at Franklin Park | 10/17/1947 | See Source »

...every Russian schoolboy is taught, the Russian press is really free-not free to speak its mind, but free to speak Russian truth. And Russian truth is always carefully designated as such by the Kremlin. Last week, the Kremlin pointed its finger at the U.S.Obediently, the Russian press huffed & puffed at the U.S. with the same force once directed against Nazi Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth, as Directed | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

While the '51 line seemed to be shaping up as the strong point in this year's squad, some schoolboy backfield stars were running through basic plays. Phil Bolster, fullback for Newton High's 1944 eleven and big John West from Winchester are two of the prop stars seeking berths on the squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Sifts Gridiron Talent As '51 Scrimmages Jayvees | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

When he was going to school, the President said, there was a discussion of the Battle of Gettysburg and a bright young man stated all the moves that should have been made by General Lee and by General Meade. The old professor said: "Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the greatest general's forethought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Schoolboy's Afterthought | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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