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...instance, the locals showed in spang new leather suits which thoroughly surprised everyone. And one year they showed up with Percy Haughton, a great punter and an even greater coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Has 16-11 Edge in Army Rivalry | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard's spang new Lamont Library is off limits to Radcliffe. Most girls are like the one in the picture directly below, on the outside looking in on the air conditioned wonders of the new library...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: 'Cliffe-Harvard Going Steady After 70 Years | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

...rancorous old Dixiecrat John Rankin had been nursing his wounds and biding his time. He had been bent on revenge ever since House Democrats unceremoniously kicked him off the publicity-making Un-American Activities Committee. Last week, like an angry mosquito, he circled, swooped and stung Congress spang on one of its most sensitive political spots. Over the loud protests of his Veterans' Affairs Committee (seven members walked out on him), Chairman Rankin highhandedly rammed through a staggering pension bill which seemed designed as much to pay back his congressional enemies as to pay off the veterans. No Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Rankin's Revenge | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Harvard substitutions: Sigourney, Spang, Hudner, Doyle, Edmonds, Hughes, Harris, Colton, Maloney, Stearns, Boughton, Stensrud, Rosenau, Connors, Carman, O'Neill, Rodgers, Powell, Bahn, Emmons, Lindsay, Brady, Sawyer, Stone, Warden...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Bids for Total Football, Soccer Sweep | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Going Around in Circles | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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