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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper, the Yardlings hold a slight edge that means less than nothing in the traditional series. Coach Lamar's team defeated a Brown squad that eked out a 6 to 3 win over the Cubs. The Yale Freshmen, however, have a potent eleven that blasted their first four opponents for 88 points while keeping their own goal line inviolate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Eleven Hits Bulldog Pups Today | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...trends. Of three congressional seats, the G.O.P. filled vacancies in Ohio and Indiana which had been previously held by Republicans, and in New York the Democrats kept control of the 14th District. Thousands of state legislature and city elections seesawed to a near standoff, with a slight edge for the Democrats, who registered gains in Indiana, Pennsylvania and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Kentucky--No Straws | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Rejects. In Pittsburgh, Ronald L. Hale escaped an auto smash-up with slight injuries, one embarrassment: he was knocked right out of his pants. In Jerome, Idaho, David Detweiler, in an accidental brush with a potato-digging machine, suffered no injury at all but was picked clean of everything but his shoes & socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...injury to Crimson guard Pete-Coyne, who stymied B. U. backs two weeks ago and slight re-shufflings of line positions will produce a new forward wall for the Yardlings today. HARVARD BROWN Bender lor. Powers Sedgwick ltr Cardoza Kanter lgr. Brison O'Brien c Frankenbach Rosenau rgl DeSimon Sitter rtl Hill Callahan rcl Scuiz Lowell qb Pastuezak Bottenfield rhl Savoye West rhl Florio White fb Beaulieu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Return to Action, Face Unbeaten Bruin Today | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...verse is neither excellent nor bad, though below that of recent issues. The exception, "Song of a Young Girl," by Alan H. Friedman, is a quite detestable piece of banality. between lines like "I want to die" and "Mother will want carrots" repeated each three or four times with slight variations, comes "slashed wrists under the bedcovers." This bit of unexplained neuroticism is not worthy of the generally mature Advocate, and can hardly be considered seriously as a poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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