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Besides the three run rally in the fifth, the Crimson nicked the sailors for all-important single tallies in the second and sixth. The Squantum scoring consisted of two runs in the fourth and another two in a last inning spurt in the seventh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Nips Squantum For Third Summer Win, 5-4 | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...days of June had come a tremendous spurt in U.S. shipping to the hunger areas-some 477,000 long tons of grain and grain products. By June's end the half-year goal of 6,000,000 long tons was in sight. The U.S. was actually short on deliveries by about one-twelfth, but this deficit was already in the pipelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Goal Attained | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...glass fragments and the steel gave off alpha rays (ionized helium atoms), beta rays (electrons) and gamma rays (natural X rays). The proportions of the rays varied with the material. The steel gave off the most gamma rays. Sometimes the radiation from a piece gave a sudden, brief spurt, much above its normal level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Still Cooking | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Sparkplug of UNRRA's present spurt was the Royal Australian Navy's fast-talking, reddish-haired R.G.A. Jackson. He had organized Malta's submarine supply line during the island's blitz. Later, as head of the Middle East Supply Center at Cairo, he had directed the imports of 20 countries. When Herbert Lehman made him senior deputy director of UNRRA, Jackson was given a job bigger but not much different from the one at Malta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: The Faces of UNRRA | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Sporting Britons cheered each Russian goal, cried "Up the Soviets!" In a dynamic spurt the Dynamos tied up the game. Final score: Russians 3, British 3. Said the Russian announcer at game's end: "Listen, comrades in Moscow, Leningrad, Tiflis and Berlin-we have passed our first exam with honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dynamic Debut | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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