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Calling innumerable heroes to vie with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...complete round will be played before Christmas vacation and another during late January and February. The two winning teams from each round will vie for the Yard championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Quintets to Clash on Monday | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Grau had picked Prío, his former Labor Minister, to succeed him; he expected that Prío would continue the Grau brand of mild New Dealism. But for a week before the inauguration Habaneras were saying: "Prío will continue the work of the vie jo [old man]-till noon, Oct. 10." Nobody had to tell Prío that Grau's popularity had slipped, that Cubans wanted a change in the way their government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Teacher & Pupil | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Here the six younger classes involved in the day's revelry will be converging and will vie for liveliness of garb. Tradition calls for something with dash and curiosity, often a costume idea for a specific class repeated over the years. though equally often varied as the fancy of the prime movers of each group shifts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

Coach Henry Lamar declared that the tournament aroused the "greatest upsurge of undergraduate interest in boxing, since the war," and predicted even more excitement in the bout for all-University championships next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Forty-four men, several of whom boxed in the House matches, will vie for top honors in the tournament which includes the top boxers in all graduate schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Pugilists Fight Their Way To House Crown | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

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