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...promises to show his Big Green face soon--he's from Dartmouth. Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased side, but, as we Frenchmen say, "c'est la guerre." Yea, and then there is Sherman's oft-quoted remark, "war is Hell...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

Concluded the Century: "The nation . . . at this juncture desperately needs a president whose yea is yea and whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Whose Yea is Yea . . . | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...godly Baptists, the paganlike Pilgrims, Run Little Chillun climaxes Act I with orgiastic Pilgrim rites by moonlight, Act II with a pandemonious Baptist revival meeting. At both gatherings everybody sings like mad, but the voodoo-haunted Pilgrims' chorus is no match for the well-harmonized hysterics of the yea-sayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...doubt that confuses us, out of the Maze of Manuals and memos and regs, one though rings clear and keeps us hopping onward-some day we'll be real WAVES, yea, true breakers-ripples no longer...

Author: By Ensign MARJORIE Willoughby, | Title: Creating A Ripple | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...rules of this yea's tournament all players must supply their own tennis balls and act as their own referees. All matches but the finals will be two out of three; but the finals will go three out of five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquet Tourney Starts Tomorrow | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

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