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Victory was snatched from the grasp of Stahl's hapless quintet Wednesday evening when a Cushing General Hospital five, putting on a spurt in the last quarter, nullified the Crimson athletes' six point third-quarter advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen to Meet Cagers Tomorrow | 2/9/1945 | See Source »

Last fall he talked the Canadiens into promising him a bonus if the club led the National Hockey League at Christmas, another bonus if he was the league's leading scorer at that time. Then he put the deal on ice. With an occasional timely spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonuses and Bubbles | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Alvin I. Reiff '47, directing the drive in Lowell House, announces that the Bell-boys sales have zoomed to $2500 in bonds and $300 in stamps in a last-week spurt. A breakdown of the sales shows that 85 percent of Lowell House has participated in the campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVILIAN BOND DRIVES CLOSED | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

...June 1, Annapolisman McCampbell jubilantly radioed his group's first tally. On June 19, McCampbell, who directs his group from a Hellcat, helped them set a new Pacific record for one day's combat (68½) by bagging seven himself. His biggest spurt in the ace-race came in the second battle of the Philippines when he set a Pacific (and perhaps World War II's) solo record for one day's combat. That day he shot down nine planes in 95 minutes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: First-Rate Runner-Up | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Frontal assault on the tower was impossible for the light-weaponed Americans. Like Indians around a blockhouse they harassed it with fire from trees, doorways, windows. At last three British tanks rumbled up after their 20-mile spurt from Eindhoven. As they arrived the Belvedere's guns spoke-and all three tanks were knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Battle of Desperation | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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