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Last week both candidates made wind-up statements. Said confident Miguel Alemán: "If I lose I will acknowledge it." No one expected he would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Viva! | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...back in the '70s, he stood close to the wall of a college building exactly the same distance from the corner of the building as the distance from the pitcher's slab to home plate. With a doubting professor of physics right behind him, Stanchfield took his wind-up and pitched. As the ball reached the end of the building it disappeared around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Unexpected return to peacetime sports required that both colleges extend their schedules beyond the traditional Thanksgiving weekend wind-up, but the excitement of renewing the favorite rivalry is expected to make December weather bearable for the spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. SCHEDULES YALE GAME | 10/5/1945 | See Source »

...Gospel Train. Mainspring of the new wind-up is the Orientation & Education course at the Army's School for Special Services, in Lexington, Va. There key men are learning how to lecture, use films and news maps, arm the nation's soldiers with knowledge and moral conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: What Are We Fighting For? | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Only a few people straggled into the galleries to see the wind-up of the second longest session in U.S. history. Only a few Congressmen were on the floors of House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Peaceful People | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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