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...Crimson have held the upper hand in the last few years and have shown a consistent ability to rip the Army line to shreds with their mousetrap plays. Most of last year's starting lineup will be back for Harvard, and they should easily overpower one of the smallest Cadet teams in years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERTS DIVE INTO HUDDLE; RESULT--WIN FOR CRIMSON | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...oldest and smallest republic-called by Abraham Lincoln "one of the most honored States in history"-had to conclude its 25-year war with Germany. Having entered World War I along with Italy, its neighbor and protector, San Marino forgot to show up when peace treaties were signed at Sevres and Versailles. Everyone else forgot about San Marino. Even when the tiny Republic's new pro-Fascist twin regents outdid their master himself by both appearing on the same City Hall balcony to announce that everything was all changed now, San Marino hadn't quite caught up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: San Marino In | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...talked dry economics to Nebraska farmers who were waiting for a chance to cheer about something. From eleven Nebraska cities and towns Henry Wallace drew a total of 15,000. In Minnesota his biggest crowd was 1,300, smallest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wallace on the Way | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Smallest sect reporting was the Friends (Primitive), whose lone congregation had 14 members. Most remarkable sect: the Two -Seed -in -the -Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (16 churches, 201 members), who believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God, that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching, no missionary work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sad Statistics | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...same way as a blind man knows the shape of his furniture by groping around. Viruses are measured in several different ways. One is to strain a substance known to contain a virus (like sap from a diseased plant) through a filter with pores of submicroscopic size. The smallest virus, that of foot-and-mouth disease, is ten-millionths of a millimeter in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Universal Enemy | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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