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...Huskies feature center Jim Bell of Waltham and watchcharm defenseman Frank Bell (no relation) who tips the scales at a mean 150 pounds. Coach Herb Gallagher shares Johnny Chase's problems at defense and had to move the lighter Bell from the forward post at which he excelled...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Skaters Meet Huskies Tonight at 8 | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

...four best guards, Brechta and Mendelson, are of the watchcharm variety, but they can afford to give away some weight. The other two, Hunt and Smith, are a pair of big, active fellows. The center, Frick, is a terror, and his reserve, Snyder, is far above the average...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...within six weeks. Last week, however, the Baden-Baden bankers did what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Signed & Sealed | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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