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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding in on Cornell's sweep-wash last Saturday doesn't exactly humble Tom Bolles' previously unbeaten Varsity crew. By finishing second on Lake Cayuga--instead of winning their third straight regatta, they merely complicated any attempt to pick the best of the Eastern crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...night trip out of Spokane, Wash., on the night we took it, was featured by a loudmouthed stewardess who kept sleep-inclined passengers awake with an all-night conversation with an unattached sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Spokane, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Wallace expressed his faith in the "purifying effect of American democracy" to wash away press and political distortions of the present hysteria wave, which he likened to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare. "The truth eventually comes out," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Returns, Cites 'Interest in Peace' In Europe | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

With the first win of the young season almost in the bag as a result of four straight-set singles victories, rains came to wash out the last half of the Varsity tennis team's match with Bowdoin on the Business School courts yesterday afternoon. Two remaining singles duels were halted with the score knotted at a set apiece, and none of the three doubles matches had yet begun when proceedings were halted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drizzle Dampens Out Tennis Victory Hopes As Varsity Leads, 4-0 | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

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