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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many times since its rebirth last spring, the Advocate has helplessly thrown up its arms and sunk into the quicksands of adolescent as well as painfully esoteric writing, but now it seems to have arrived safely on firm, green ground. The current issue combines the magazine's previous virtues with a new one, short stories that are worth the type they use. Now the consistently fine poetry, drawings, and makeup all yield the spotlight to the place where it belongs-on the fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

Moors Hall, the gift of Boston broker John F. Moors '83, will feature such innovations as smoking rooms with connecting kitchenettes and space-hoarding dressers and bookcases sunk in the woodwork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frozen Turf No Problem as 'Cliffers Dig for New Dorm | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

From the free throw line, both teams were automatic, setting a new combined collegiate game Garden record of 36 charity tosses sunk. Five men, including McCurdy, Henry, and Gannon left the game late in the second half as a result of these fouls. If the Crimson had hit from the floor with equal success, the complexion of the game might have changed. Coach Barclay's men swished only 9 out of 39 field-goal tries in the first half, 15 out of 52 in the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bradley Checks Revitalized Crimson, 68-62, at Garden | 12/17/1947 | See Source »

There was Kenneth Edward. When World War II began, Kenneth Edward was 13. In 1940 he went to sea in an ammunition ship. At 15, he transferred to the Cymbeline, which was sunk by a German raider. The raider landed him in France and he was sent to an internment camp, then to another and another and another. He did not know where these camps were or how long he stayed in them. At last Kenneth came to the attention of John Amery, another British traitor, who was organizing a British Free Corps to fight the Russians. In time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...more touchdown sunk the Funsters in the second half as Zimmerman again connected to Duble, and Andy Cooper tossed a pass to basil Cooper in the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Beat Dunster, 25-0, While Commuters Smash Puritans, 35-0 | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

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