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...German U-boats steamed back from the Atlantic flying the black flags of surrender. In all, 181 U-boats gave up, and another 217 were destroyed by their crews. During the course of the Atlantic war, 699 more had been sunk by the Allies, and another 82 had been lost through accidents of war. They had been Hitler's best bet to keep the U.S. from sending effective help to Europe, and for a time in 1942 and 1943 it had looked as though the bet would pay off. Together with Italian subs, they had sent more than...
...Indians, while not primarily a fast-break team, can run well. But the predominant feature of their attack is good shooting. Before beating Yale Thursday, Dartmouth had scored on 37 percent of its field goal attempts. Jim Francis, the team's second high scorer, at six foot eight, has sunk 48 percent...
...importing grain from Argentina by operating their own ships, later branched into shipping on his own. In 1939 Niarchos leased his eight ships to the Allies and went off to corvette duty as a Royal Hellenic Navy lieutenant. By war's end, half his ships had been sunk...
...million. The additional 1% salary levy he wanted to impose would cost the average teacher $20 a year, and the schoolmasters felt that this was a cut they could ill afford. Their minimum paychecks, they pointed out, were already a good $3 under the national average ($26.46). "We are sunk so low," protested one Scotsman, "that our sacred profession . . . has become the subject of cheap political jokes and material for the cartoonist...
...lead was short lived. With eight minutes to go, M.I.T. star Dmitri Vergun, a disappointment for most of the evening, sunk a hook which knotted the score at 47-47. From then on it was close all the way. A Tech basket with 58 seconds remaining sent the large cowds wild, but Hastings' lay-up 13 seconds later proved the clincher. Both teams missed chances to score in the final seconds...