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...playoff in its history. During the skirmishing of the past few days, a towering Dartmouth Indian made off with a half a claim to the 1942 title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story...
...will also be the last appearance of the Crimson five in non-league competition as it attempts to wrest the mythical Greater Boston hoop title out of the grasp of the fighting Terriers who need only a win tonight for the crown...
...reprisals sure to come-in their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...
...partial exile to which I am subjected," said he, "I strive to do all my duty. Each day I endeavor to wrest this country from the stagnation that threatens it. ... Help me!" Remarking that the new French Constitution was almost ready, he added: "But that document can only be dated from Paris and promulgated only on the moral of the liberation of national territory...
...encounter rests on world-shattering affairs which occurred early last month, when the Ephs, accorded little chance of presenting even a favorable exhibition against the mighty Yale puckmen, met the Elis at New Haven. To the amazement of everyone, they rammed home enough goals in the last period to wrest a 5 to 3 decision from the startled Blues, who apparently thought that a victory over Minnesota, Western champs, was practically fool proof insurance against troubled times back in the East...