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The wind was of such force that the Engineers, who are not accustomed to air outside of their own wind-tunnels, at first did not wish to hazard forth on the frothy surface. Finally, after one of the dinghys broke loose from its moorings and led all concerned a merry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINGHIES WIN SECOND PLACE IN QUAD MEET | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

With the highly-touted Indian attack bogged down on the soggy track, Jaakko Mikkola's defenders slashed through to win ten of the fifteen firsts and reverse the Big Green's 66-42 indoor conquest last winter. They even surpassed Dartmouth's nine out of twelve wins of that meet...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Underdog Cindermen Defeat Big Green; Batsmen Slug Way to Princeton Victory | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

When large, soggy, and black carrots came into the Lowell House dining room the other day, outraged Bellboys failed a few particularly unpalatable chunks on the bulletin board and began a campaign for cold carrots. The movement gained momentum and Miss Trickett, the dietitian, was bombarded with threatening notes. Happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Eat Raw Carrots | 4/23/1941 | See Source »

Last week Ordnance dedicated with due fuss & feathers the first of its three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to Burn | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

In Berlin more than 200 mass meetings were held last week. Their slogan: Up the flag, for Germany determines the future. In Great Britain the Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) was expected soon; Britons got out their gas masks and remarked that late in February the ground is soggy and receptive to gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Expectations | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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