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...Sixteen teams have been lined up for the open doubles to extend it to the four round limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Titlist Bumps Coach From Bracket | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...true that the U.S. has no alternative to spending more billions on Europe? It has just one. The U.S. could start dropping atomic bombs on Russia now, before the Russians can retaliate. It could, but there isn't one chance in ten million that it will. Sixteen centuries ago a great Christian (Saint Ambrose) laid it down that Christians have no right to go to war "unless driven to it." There are enough people in the U.S. who feel the way Ambrose felt about it, so that the Russians need not stay awake nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WHAT PRICE PEACE? | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Sixteen Freshmen acquired four A's or more during the spring term to gain standing in Group 1 of the College rank list, Dean Delmar Leighton '18 announced yesterday. Two of the men are veterans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Freshmen Attain Group I in Spring | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...Sixteen board members of the left-wing Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Grey for Reds | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...extend the realm of intelligible writing beyond the Freshman level. Since such a change would be made only with difficulty, a period of experimentation on a small scale is needed to smooth the way for later conversion when the time comes to tell incoming Freshmen that six of the sixteen courses required for a degree must be in the field of General Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward Undying Prose | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

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