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...these grads Houses become unimportant. Those are the guys who wouldn't walk a block to see a world series game, but will sail a couple of thousand miles to be along the finish line on the Thames at New London when the Harvard and Yale crews race that tortuous four miler in June...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...Efficient use of coal in thin, tortuous, or hard-to-get-at seams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man-Made Inferno | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Another announcement was like a bolt striking close at hand, sharply outlining the neighborhood right around home. It came from William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis, the two top American-born bosses of the U.S. Communist Party. The bold net of their announcement, stripped of its tortuous Communist lingo, was that their primary allegiance belonged not to their homeland but to the U.S.S.R. If war came, they and all faithful Communists would be on the side of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: We Would Oppose | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...staff works under constant tension, not to get its facts right as on most other newspapers, but to be sure to toe the line. In its tortuous progress (sometimes with no advance notice from Moscow) many a staffer has been caught zigging when he should have been zagging. The commissars also keep a watchful eye on the personal lives of all employees (present total: 57, including business staff). Since the staff employees are all party members, they are subject to the party's discipline, which rules out such bourgeois reporters' vices as office parties and poker games. Staffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The House on Twelfth Street | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Plebes Lead Tortuous Lives...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: West Point Builds on Past Tradition | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

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