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Army was outclassed last week so Harvard scouts couldn't tell much about its offense except that it was fine until it reached the line of scrimmage. This same Army team, however, trimmed Columbia in a practice tilt and has a real trio of triple-threat backs. The Crimson spent a full hour yesterday learning what to expect from Jere Maupin, Hank Mazur, and John Hatch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SQUAD GRINDS FOR ARMY | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

Sparked by Captain Dave Ives and Herky Herskovits, Coach Jack Carr's soccer eleven came from behind to quell a threatening Tufts uprising with a 4 to 1 triumph in the season's opening tilt on the Business School Field, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS OPEN WITH 4-1 WIN OVER JUMBOS | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...took off one night last week for Pittsburgh. Twenty-three minutes later, over the foothills of the Blue Ridge range near Lovettsville, Va., 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. Killed and mangled were all 21 passengers, its crew of four. The force of the crash was so great that, strapped in their seats, many of them were literally cut in two by their safety belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in the Blue Ridge | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Sirs: Almaden mine at which you glance in this week's issue [TIME, April 22, p. 80] & which you announce as soon to run again is running full tilt now & has been for some months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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