Word: slates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having already cleared Aluminum Co. of America of maintaining an illegal monopoly (TIME, Oct. 13), Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week wiped Alcoa's slate clean of the other Government charges of conspiracy and miscellaneous misconduct. With his marathon ad lib decision completed-it took him ten days to dictate it in open court, covered 680 pages -the longest (April 1937 to last week) lawsuit in U.S. history was over. The 72-year-old judge swiftly left Manhattan for a six-week vacation in Maine...
Only this year has pre-season contact work been a deciding factor in the outcome of the opening game on the slate. Formerly at the top of the Crimson schedule there was always a pushover game that proved to be little more than a long drink of water. Last year it was Amherst, in other years Bates and Brown were "breather" material in which it was possible to use the veterans only sparingly and concentrate instead on seasoning the all-important reserves for actual use in the "headline" games later...
...their resistance and start the dancing in the literary lanes and book fairs of the nation. But though "Grapes" and "Bell" both came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous title, on both occasions the book reviewers made notable goal line stands to keep the slate clean and sustain the hopes of countless knights of the pen that they would be the first to reach the end zone of literary immortality...
...city but are thrown to and fro by the A.A. fire which is now thundering out, and spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...
...complete slate will appear in Saturday's Crimson, with no distinction between those chosen by the Nominating Committee last night and those put up by petition...