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Near Tobruk, all this while, the R.A.F. was feverishly busy. Gaily, pilots flew out from a field which they called Tramride. Grimly, they flew back again and renamed it Tramraid. Their job was to cut Axis supply columns, and it was urgent. They had to try to stave off the fall of Bir Hachéin for, if that hot spot fell, Rommel would have clear lines of communications for an advance on Tobruk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Second Round: Rommel's | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Whether the Middies will wilt under pressure or whether they will be able to stave it off, as they did against Cornell, only time will tell, and that time is rapidly approaching...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: NAVY MENACES CRIMSON SUPREMACY Harvard Rated 'Fighting Chance' in Hep Meet Today | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

...start. Thus while Curwen drops to 32, Childs stays at 35, and this higher stroking should give Navy an early advantage. On such things is unusually abyssmal on such things is unusually abysmal this year, forsces a grim struggle in the last, long quarter mile as Childs strives to stave off the closing sprint which Curwen is bound to spark. At a low stroke the Varsity is not overly impressive, but when Captain Ted Lyman's men got swinging over 36, their power and precision have thus far seemed unbeatable...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

...voted best-all-round man outside athletics -after college Everett Case took five years of postgraduate parlaying at Cambridge (England) and Harvard. Then he went to work as Owen Young's personal secretary at General Electric. He also did secretarial jobs for banking committees (trying to stave off the 1933 crash) and NBC's advisory council. At NBC he met and married his boss's only daughter, Josephine, who was working in NBC's educational department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case to Colgate | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Last week Harold Ickes "hoped" to stave off oil rationing in the U.S., but made no promises. Instead he made plans with Leon Henderson for printing gasoline coupons, if & when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Tankers Away | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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