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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elephants, featuring a T formation and a Notre Dame huddle, capped a season of lopsided scores last week by defeating Dudley, 27 to 0. The outcome of today's game will hinge upon Adams' ability to stop galloping Pete Reiner and Rick Hudner, who have been responsible for most of Eliot's touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Fight For Title Today | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: City of Death | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...industry . . . Yet at this time, when the industry demands and requires a fixed habit of production economy, seems I can't get a job . . . Must we always wait until a productive pioneer is found dead in some 'obscure Hollywood hotel room' before you reflect upon an 'indifferent and forgetful' industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help Wanted | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Unearthly Light. One morning, before her marriage to Joseph, an invisible presence impels Miriam to her room. There falls upon her "a clear unearthly light, not of the sun," and the angel appears speaking the words of the Annunciation. She is to bear a son conceived by the Holy Spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miriam & Yeshua | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Dean Bender declined last night to state exactly what would happen to the students. Reports will be made to the Dean's Committee and its findings passed up to the administrative board, he said. "Decisions will depend entirely upon the seriousness of the individual cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Discuss Fates of Rally Rioters Today | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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