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Claiming that "we could wipe the field with you Harvards, if given the opportunity," Dartmouth captain Bob Woodberry has asked the Crimson to "pick a date, any damn date you want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby's Challenge | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

...Israel can find a lasting solution to her problems in the near future. A negotiated peace seems to be unthinkable for the Arabs. Some elements in Israel have urged a preventive war. But even if Israeli soldiers marched to Damascus or Cairo, they could not expect to wipe out the opposition of the Arab world. War would only multiply further the legacy of hatred among the Arabs. The present divisions among the Arabs may seem to offer the Israelis a chance to politick for possible ententes with disaffected Arab states. It is doubtful, however, that any Arab state would risk...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Storm Clouds Over Israel | 3/10/1955 | See Source »

...This assessment is standard procedure in cases of destruction in the dormitories," Hoadley explained. "I would give anything to wipe it off. I hope that this measure will make 150 detectives in Mather. If I can find any indication that it was done by outsiders, I will remove the fines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 Mather Residents Assessed $2 After Damage to 8 Bulletin Boards | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...dance started at 8, never earlier, ended at 10, never later. Twice weekly at Hanoi's National Theater, before an audience of men in shapeless tunics and women officials in pigtails, the Viet Minh army "Culture Corps" recited a tone poem, to the wailing of reedy instruments. "Wipe away your tears," they intoned. "The enemy is gone. In the North, in the South we are the same family and nothing can divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Serious Problem No. 2 was the French: there was a new determination in them, a special kind of pride born of French anxiety to wipe out the humiliations of the war and to re-emerge as a great power. As such, the French were quite definite about Indo-China: they wanted it back. With a ruthlessness and skill that matched Ho's own, the French army speedily got control of the South and could not be kept out much longer from Hanoi. So Ho negotiated: when the French army came back into the North, as the Chinese withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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