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...left bank of the Charles, or, more exactly, in Phillips Brooks House last night, the French club fought a tossup battle over Brooklyn and Beacon Street accents in a game effort to recapture "I'esprit gaulois" on no stronger fuel than ice water. (It was called punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Existentialist Erotics Find Outlets in Champagne and Chanel | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Valpey, who called the outcome of the Columbia game when he predicted that four touchdowns would be needed to win, thinks Cornell will be rough. "It should be a tossup. We lost a lot of weight Saturday and are not a good team...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Jayvees Simulate Cornell's Offensive | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

Samborski has narrowed the search for catcher down to Web Durant and Clif Crosby. The two seem even at the moment, and it is almost a tossup as to who will start next Tuesday's game...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Rough Diamond | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Jesse Abramson, New York Herald Tribune: "An upset is possible in a game that has suddenly become a tossup, in the way this...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: Sportswriters Toss Up Coin And It Comes Down Yales | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Younger Successors. To follow Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 54, is an overwhelming favorite. Insiders consider the Air Forces job a tossup between General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz (54) and his Texas-born lieutenant in the European theater, Lieut. General Ira Eaker (49), but an even younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Top Brass Plans | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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