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Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Kak Vsegda | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Either the dog goes or you do" took a new slant yesterday in Harvardevens as two groups of residents, one with dogs and the other with children, went to war with each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'It Shouldn't Happen,' Say Persecuted Devens Dog Owners | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

...Crimson opened the scoring in the second quarter following a John White punt runback. Halfback John West and White carried the ball inside and outside for 60 yards with White finally striking pay dirt on an off tackle slant from the 3-yard line. Jim Lowell made the point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Teams Sweep Over Brown | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Avoiding a direct controversy, Niebuhr implied that numerous ambiguous areas in both Christianity and Communism were not mutually exclusive. He consistently took the historical slant on Communism, declaring that essentialy it was a protest against a Christian ethic which had made property the instrument of virtue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clergymen in Forum Avoid Direct Debate | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...tackle slant by West in the first period opened the scoring, and Jim Lowell, playing his first game as quarterback, traveled eight yards on a quarterback sneak for the second Crimson tally before the half ended. A 40 yard run by White had set up the play for Lowell...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: Freshman Running Attack Swamps Exeter 28-6 as Quartet of Backs Score | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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