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...Varsity competition, based on the traditional yardstick of comparative scores, appears a toss-up. Both squads have lost to Princeton and Penn by mighty margins, with Yale rolling up a slightly greater minority of points in both meets. The Elis, however, did snatch a two-point win from the Army team which blanked Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Oppose Yale Teams Here, Close Meets Seen | 3/4/1942 | See Source »

Where would the Germans strike? Where could the Russians hope to hold them? When could they hope to win? In seeking to answer these questions for his boss, Boris Shaposhnikov would have to riffle through the index of his incredible brain, snatch at the most applicable texts and apply them, in their proper seasons, to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What Will Spring Bring? | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...seen blood on the moon over the Java Sea since he was a slim stripling. It was part of life in the underarmed, fabulously rich, strangely strategic Indies, lying like a rich, jewel-encrusted girdle athwart the sea traffic of half the world. Some day the hungry Jap would snatch at that girdle to pilfer its jewels. If he succeeded, that half of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Het is Zoover | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Governorship of a black, uncharted Java at 30, then to deal fairly with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free trade, vigorous justice, mixed honor and unceasing labor. This was a pungent man; Britain needed more like him in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report on a Grimness | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...John Eusden whose performance Saturday. if it is any indication whatever, ought to put fear in the minds of every Ivy League swimming coach. For "Big John," after coming in fourth in the 50, made a comeback to finish second in the 100, and, in fact, almost to snatch a first in this race from the hands of the great Hutter

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Indian Skaters Hand Crimson Six First Defeat, 4 to 3; Hutter Leads Alumni to Victory Over Varsity Mermen | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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