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...presumably sit by while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been exiled from Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mississippi Frontier | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

With four topnotch songs and with four outstanding performances headed by the many horse-powered personification of Evelyn Engine by Robert Bacon, Hasty Pudding has really produced some good entertainment for its perspiring spring production. Although the only person who really stopped the show last night was Councilman Sullivan who kept the audience waiting for an hour with his performance the day's happenings anent the Daily Blast, metropolitan newspaper, and the inmates in the Cretin Sanatorium mix well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

Cutler will be expected to score at least eight points during the meet. He is slated to swim the 220 and the 440, and ought to press Yale's topnotch free-styler, Howie Johnson, to the limit in the furlong, while in the quarter-mile he should encounter no serious opposition from Rene Chouteau. Tonight's contest is Rick's last dual meet for Harvard...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Ulenmen Will Attempt to Push Eli Powerhouse to Limit Today | 3/12/1940 | See Source »

...compiling this incredible record of victories, Harvard swimming teams have seldom competed before large crowds. There are several reasons for the undergraduate and public neglect of the University's most consistently successful athletes: the newness of swimming as a topnotch intercollegiate sport: conflicting dates with other winter sport contests, and, most important of all, the unfamiliarity of the average fan with the essentials of the sport...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak h, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, topnotch Yardling divers, together with Bus Curwen, distance man, and Bill Drucker, backstroker, ought to be the point winners for '43. The first-year men will elect a captain after the meet. From the spectator's point-of-view, the contest should be of unusual interest...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Columbia Optimistic Before Its Battle With Unbeaten Mermen Here Tonight | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

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