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Just as diverse is the complement of Dunster House, the smallest of the lot. It has the largest library and its inhabitants manage even so to engage in every sort of activity, even to the point of staging an annual bicycle race to Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invasion of Yard by Navy Radio School Compels Freshmen to Retreat to Houses | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...trading on the New York Stock Exchange fell to 7,229,000 shares, smallest for any month since August 1918. But stock prices rose 5%, first month-to-month gain since last July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Cola Armistice | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...service. John Ford's careful, solemn direction; photography that is completely in accord with the spirit of the episode; a musical background that is head and shoulders above even the better things that Hollywood has done along that line in the past; superb acting performances, down to the smallest bit part--all these, have been smoothly welded into a first-rate job of cinematography...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/14/1942 | See Source »

...Englanders, who naturally believe that their scions are bigger if not better men than their fathers, got a shock last week. According to an Army stature chart, bona fide Yanks are the smallest men in today's Army, said Major George D. Williams of the Surgeon General's office. The average New England height has been pulled down by the many short-statured descendants of French-Canadian and Polish settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Small Yankees | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...have aerial superiority for the present, and there are other signs that the Burma front and the Bay of Bengal (see p. 20) are about all that Japan's air services can handle at one time. Japan's air superiority in the Bay of Bengal is the smallest she has yet had in any important area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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