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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repudiating the Truman Doctrine, and pointing out the success of the United Nations in dealing with the Iranian problem as contrasted with the failure of United States' activities in Greece, Cornell won a unanimous decision over the Debate Council last night in the Winthrop Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Debaters Bow Before Cornell Team | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

...roared down Huron Avenue, hasty radio calls to Boston, Belmont, Somerville, Watertown, and other local communities set up road blocks along possible escape routes, but without success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Stalk Coop Robbery Suspect | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

America's capacity to lead depends on its faculty to produce wise and effective leaders, its success in retaining unity at home, and its ability as a people to continue to believe in the ideals which have motivated the past and point the way toward the future, President Conant asserted last night at a dinner of the Economic Club of Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Speech Cites U.S. Ability to Lead | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...most devastating fullback plays in the Crisler repertoire is the bucklateral series which he developed at Princeton and which is now being revived with considerable success there by Charlie Caldwell. Clee O'Donnell, 1946 Crimson captain who played first-string wingback against Chappuis, Wistert, & Company in the 35 to 7 rout at Ann Arbor in 1942, says Michigan ruined the Crimson that day on buck-lateral plays...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

Part of the Crimson's mid-game success was due to recurring Dartmouth penalties which kept the Indians short-handed for most of the stanza. Illnatured Mike Thayer led the offenders in this department, languishing in the penalty box for 14 minutes, ten of them for armed assault on the referee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slashing Dartmouth Sextet Downs Outmanned Crimson by 10-5 Count | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

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