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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell, according to the scouting report filed by Coaches Ben McCabe and Henry Lamar, has one of the four fastest teams in the country, as well as boasting depth in both lines and backfield. They use a complete two-platoon system, and their backfield includes such formidables as Hilary Chollet, Jeff Fleishman, Frank Miller, and Lynn Dorset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Runs Through Long Workout, Readies for Cornell | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

That was one expressive word in U.S. teen-age use last week to convey a common feeling about the reopening of school. Nothing, teen-agers thought, could be more "frip" than getting down to work in the first weeks of fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where You Goin', But? | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Gallerygoers who peered into the canvases for traces of faces or places did so in vain. "Naturally," concluded the manifesto, "there is no use looking . . . They have all melted into the void...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Into the Void | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Putnam's translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...cover" for these men, Valpey will use Sam Butler and Duke Sedgewick in place of Houston and Bender on offense; on defense, Dick Guidera and John Coan will fill in. Bill Rosenan will relieve Butler part of the time on defense, and Pete Coyne, brought up from the Jayvees this week, will provide more depth at the guard position...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Injury-Ridden Crimson Given Edge Over Columbia in Today's Skirmish | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

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