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Harvard's Varsity and Jayvee fencing teams also have matches slated, the Senior squad crossing swords with Brown at 3:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building, preceded by the Jayvee tiff with Andover at 2 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN TACKLE LIONS; FENCERS OPPOSE BROWN | 2/12/1943 | See Source »

...gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading. Others may be reminded of those hairdressers' exhibits where decollete women with complete sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book Notes | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Super-Tiff. In a Newark divorce court, Stanley Wagner testified that, though his parents lived in the same house, he had never heard them speak to each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets to the dripping fount of sentimental stage glamor: the star's dressing room on a great London first night, flowers, hubbub, reminiscing old doorman, tiff between actresses-and, in the midst of all this, the lover's dismissal and the husband's return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old & New Plays in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Buffalo, after many a tiff with other comers in the devil-take-the-hindmost new industry, Fleet got his start. He turned out a good trainer (the PT-1), a crack flying boat. When he lost a Navy order (outbid by Martin), he helped organize the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Airline (NYRBA) to use as a market for his flying boats, commercially called Commodores. (He sold the line later to Pan Am, and won himself a reputation in Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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