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...vallant lato-inning rally by the champion Kirkland House baseball team fell short at New Haven last Saturday when Yale's undefeated Calhoun College made the most of five early unearned runs and hung on for a 10-8 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Rally Fails; Calhoun Nine Wins | 5/24/1961 | See Source »

...power is particularly ironic in view of recent political history," Mayer added. "This is the age of the Obese Dictator--Khrushchev, Peron, Tito, Stalin, and Castro are cases in point." He cited Winston Churchill as another example of a willful fat man. "It is amusing," he concluded, "that The Vallant Years, a current TV series on Churchill, is being sponsored by Metrecal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor of Nutrition Says Obesity Found Too Seldom Here | 3/29/1961 | See Source »

...Morningside Heights gymnasium the Crimson men put up a vallant fight, winning in all three of the heavy classes. The Princeton meet was featured by the fine performances of Captain Richard G. Ames '34, and Gridley Barrows '34 for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOST MINOR, 1937 WEEKEND GAMES GO TO CRIMSON TEAMS | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Professor Huntington observed that a few decades ago only a few vallant and exceptional students "ever dared rise to such dizzy heights" as the study of differential and integral calculus, but that today the calculus is merely the starting point in college mathematics. The march of modern science has erased from the mathematical specialist the stain of being "queer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington Declares People are Coming to Realize Abstract Beauty in Mathematics--Points Out Value of the Science | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

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