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Shepard stated that the quintet just didn't have the necessary practice before their loss to Springfield Saturday, but that the "boys are sharper now." He believes the Crimson can spring an upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Seeks Upset Tonight Over Fast Quaker Team | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black agreed with the decision, but they had much sharper reasons for it. The constitutional amendment violated, said Douglas, was not the 14th Amendment, but the Fifth, which says explicitly that no man can be compelled to testify against himself in any criminal case. Wrote Douglas: "Words taken from his lips, capsules taken from his stomach, blood taken from his veins are all inadmissible, provided they are taken from him without his consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Freedom of the Stomach | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...nowhere. The Communist negotiators were so obviously stalling that the U.N. suspected they had been ordered by Moscow to drag their feet while Andrei Vishinsky ran off his diversionary shenanigans in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL). Nothing so far afield was mentioned across the tables at Panmunjom, but the language was sharper and more insulting than it had ever been before. At one point, Major General Howard Turner said to Red China's Hsieh Fang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: All in the Day's Work | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...other hand, many businessmen worry less about inflation than recession -not for 1952 but for the years after that. They point out that only arms production kept last year's sales slump from being much sharper. What, they ask, will keep the economy going when all the expansion is completed, and arms spending is cut back from its peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great Gamble | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...first quarter Saturday, although the Crimson offense looked sharper than heretofore, the game began to develop according to the usual pattern. After an exchange of punts and fumbles put the Cadets on their own 45, quarterback Pete Vann threw a scoring pass to halfback Tom Bell, who was all by himself behind the Crimson secondary. The play, however, was called back because the over-anxious Army backs were in motion...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Eleven Outshines Army in Stirring 22-21 Win | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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