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...Quakers and the Fliers were not however, noted for defensive play. The Indians are. Crimson rooters can only hope that if Harvard gets down to pay dirt in next Saturday's game, it won't stall and lose the ball on downs...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: W & M Defense Wins Scout Lamar's Praise | 10/8/1942 | See Source »

...Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Summer in the Mountains | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Bruin base runner, who was running with the pitch. Floyd Stahl's infield quickly recovered its composure and slammed the gate on further scoring as Berg coaxed the next batter to bang into a lightning-like Harvey-to-Drake-to-Fitz double play. But the stallion had fled the stall, as subsequent happenings proved...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Brown Clips Stahlers 1-0 in Pitchers' Battle | 7/24/1942 | See Source »

...read the War Department record of Mrs. Isbelle's grandson, Private Lewis Stall, as a rifle crack, an Army marksman. Then Sam Rayburn rolled out some red-hot secret figures on the U.S. war effort-figures so secret that newsmen, who had known them for weeks, had not dared to tell them. But the Speaker of the House is not subject to censorship. Said Sam Rayburn: "More than 3,300 planes are pouring out of our factories monthly . . . tank production is ahead of schedule, with one company alone turning out an entire trainload daily. . . ." He said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rayburn Ropes a Steer | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Four-thirty a.m.: breakfast; 5:30 a.m.: exercised for five or six miles, then cleaned and groomed; if he has no mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Red's 25th | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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