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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier today, in a pre-game ceremony in front of the Dillon Field House, a plaque was dedicated to Hunnington R. "Tack" Hardwick '15, great football player of the 1915 era. The dedication was preceded by a luncheon at the varsity club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2 Students Are Fined for Their Part in Square Riot | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...memorial, to Huntington R. (Tack) Hardwick '15, has been placed in front of Dillon Field House. Hardwick, who died in 1945, was a football, baseball, and track star, captaining the 1915 team. The citation reads: "Inspiring leader, eager competitor, loyal sportsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sock 'em" Is Latest Football Cry | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...fine-grade apparel wool (last week's auction was mostly limited to grade B stock). The U.S. will import more than 300 million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready for another pinch: the National Security Resources Board Chairman W. Stuart Symington said that the Munitions Board will start stockpiling wool for Army, Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild & Woolly | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...memorial, to Huntington R. (Tack). Hardwick '15, has been placed in front of Dillon Field House. Hardwick, who died in 1945, was a football, baseball, and track star, captaining the 1915 team. The citation reads: "Inspiring leader, eager competitor, loyal sportsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sock 'em" is Latest Football Cry | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...gavel when he pounced back to the issue over which he had walked out. The Nationalist Chinese delegate, Malik "ruled," had no right to sit in the Council, since he did not represent the Chinese people. When the U.S. and friends challenged this arbitrary ruling, Malik tried another tack. He submitted a provisional agenda which blandly ignored the rule of taking up unfinished business left over from the preceding session (a U.S. resolution condemning North Korean aggression). Malik proposed two items of his own: the seating of Communist China in the U.N., and "peaceful settlement" in Korea. His terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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