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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handicapped by a mid-year examination lay-off, the Crimson fell before an unexpected Eli assault in the two teams' first meeting at New Haven last month. With renewed confidence after trouncing the exalted Indians, the Cantabs are set to wipe out the stain of that defeat tonight...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Varsity Basketeers to Seek Revenge Tonight as Blue Hoopsters Threaten | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...defeating the Quakers, Princeton toppled one team out of the running for the title and tonight will have an opportunity to wipe out any Fesler aspirations for the championship. Because of the Tigers' remarkable showing in their last two encounters and because of the inability of Charlie Lutz to play, the Orange and Black must necessarily be given the nod in this evening's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bengal Five Has Edge in Tonight's Tilt With Varsity | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Harvard professors joined New England Congressional leaders yesterday in endorsing the campaign to wipe out he atrocities of modern warfare, and pledged their support to an international congress to revise the rules of war to protect non-combatants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSORS ATTACK WAR | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

Asked whether the bill had been introduced on the suggestion of the city of Cambridge the tax sponsor replied, "No, I introduced the bill on my own." Foley denied that the excise was aimed to wipe out a deficit in the city treasury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sponsor Says College Property Tax Designed to Meet General Expenses | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

...tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside the body cells, where the antibody for some reason cannot penetrate. The chicken is thus in the unfortunate position of a military com-mander who has enough troops to wipe out an enemy if he could get them out of jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabbit Skin, Chicken Cells | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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