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Filling in for the cancelled Knights of Columbus meet, which was scheduled for Boston Garden during January, the Varsity and Freshman track teams will trek to Tufts tomorrow for another informal battle with the Jumbos. As in the previous skirmish with the men from Medford, held December 13 in Briggs Cage, no times will be released, and no scores will be compiled...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: TRACKMEN TRAVEL FOR TUFTS MEET | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

...behind, the Carrmen staged a last period rally resulting in the tying score from the toe of Jack Sawhill. Then in the overtime canto the enemy swept down the field and Schmid clinched the game for gymnasts. Both Prenny Willetts and Bill Edger were injured in the afternoon's skirmish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS BEAT MIT FALL TO GYMNASTS | 11/12/1940 | See Source »

...always thought that the reason Snavely stirred up a hornet's nest by the charge that Duke took movies of Carolina's games previous to their skirmish in 1935 was due to the fact that it was in those films that the Duke staff found out that Coach Snavely also played quaretrback. It was quite a sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

...Will left in Europe was Romains himself, and he scuttled for the U. S. Strategist Karl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." If war is only one incident in a battle of political action, Jules Romains wasted his energy trying to avoid a skirmish while the battle passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Mystery of Jules Romains | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Singapore Flanked | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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