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Radcliffe gave MIT a hard time last night during a wet and very confusing water polo game in the Tech pool. The final score was 5 to 4, in favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo Gets New Look As Annex Battles with MIT | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...most horrible thing was a little girl, about 13. She stood on the sidewalk with some other kids, just a few yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...late 20s tried to tell what it was like to see: "At first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania dairy farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sight for the Sightless | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: First Valpey Squad Favored to Whip Yale in 65th Annual Struggle Today | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...rally ended with the singing of Fair Harvard and the crowds disappeared into the rainy darkness to dry their feet and wet their whistles...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Rally on Widener Steps Ends Pre-Game Hoopla | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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