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...even in the usually placid interval between halves did last Saturday's high pitch of excitement waver. Definitely outclassed instrumentally along the ground, the B.U. band resorted to the use of their air arm to gain a tie in the much heralded-by BU tub thumpers-battle of the bands...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Torrid Twirler Tantalizes Ten Thousand Men | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...injuries have become an accepted part of the game, often tipping the scales of victory and defeat with embarrassing results, fatalities in collegiate football today are rare. Trainer Jimmy Cox, who remembers when Varsity medical equipment consisted of a "bottle of horse linament, a roll of tape and a tub," credits improved training methods, specialized protective equipment like the modern helmet, and stricter medical checkups with lowering the deathrate. "Nowadays," observe the Varsity trainer, "boys with weak hearts and other boys who should never be allowed on a football field are ruled out at the start...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

...year-old sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity to best advantage for his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surefire | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Homecoming | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...picture that told a story, so the gallery began with such contemporary favorites as Sir Luke Fildes' The Doctor, Lord Leighton's The Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead, and Millais' drowned Ophelia (his model: Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who posed fully gowned in a tub of flower-littered water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tote's Treat | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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