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...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...line item in the Business & Finance section of TIME'S February 14 issue (see cut) that made him itch to get to a telephone. The story was a brief account (sent in by a TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser is to a pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Kirkland swooped up on the tired Dunster men in the final period with three successive goals, and then goalie Bob Snow made a great save on a one-man rush to sew up the game...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Deacons Beat Funsters, 5-4, In Pucks Tilt | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

Extenuation. In Andover, Conn., Mrs. Samuel T. Howard complained to police that her husband had shot at her because she failed to sew two buttons on his trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped off five toes in his lawn mower, found four, had a doctor sew them on again. Lifeguards at Chicago's Oak Street Beach put on shocking-pink trunks to distinguish them from ordinary bathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Summertime | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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