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Dunster's quintet handed the Bunnies their first drubbing of the day by pulling a close slugfest out of the fire in the last few minutes to win 34 to 30. The rough contest submerged Leverett one more rung to fifth place on the inter-House basketball ladder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesteryear Trophywinners Crossed Four Times in Intramural Contests | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics here and former member of the W.L.B., described three possible answers to the problem: first, that the conflict can only be resolved at the expense of the public interest; second, that there can be no settlement, only a slugfest; and third, that the conflict can be resolved only if strong and stifling legislation is passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Debaters Clash On Labor-Management Issues | 11/2/1945 | See Source »

...evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country got, so I decided I'd better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...games that have been played so far, Company A defeated Company B in a game last Wednesday in an 18 to 10 slugfest. Company C also possesses an emblemished record, having crushed Adams House, the only other civilian contingent in the competition, by a count of 17 to 2, last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Leads Softball Play; Companies A, C Are Tied | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

Meanwhile, for the next two years, Detroit would have a mayor who had been generally friendly to labor and who, in the first election slugfest of his career, had doubtless learned much about his own shortcomings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Detroit: Labor Gains | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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