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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yet even in defeat, the team showed considerable promise. They scored five times; after the sloppy first period, the team met B.C. goal for goal; and goalie Phil Clark made 25 saves, almost all of them difficult. Period 1 2 3 t Boston College 3 2 3 8 Harvard...

Author: By Donald Cardwell, | Title: B. C. Thwacks Hockey Team, 8-5; Brown Bows to Swimmers, 45-30 | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

...addition to Herzog, tentative organization of the Society includes J. Russell Hunter '49, who has been named manager-treasurer. A vice-president has not yet been selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell's Musicians Resume, Will Present Handel Opera | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

...movement towards a human welfare society in America will continue." I do not maintain that the 80th Congress charged headlong into the millennium. 1946-48 represent years in which America could consolidate her position. The proliferation of government agenefes, bureaus, corporations, departments, etc. since 1932 alarms even Democrats--yet screams of anguish arise (from the CRIMSON) when a year passes without the usual bales of half-baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales slogans--"New Deal," "fair deal," "gluttons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Council, the Library, and Sundry Other Subjects | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...miles out in the Gulf of Mexico; 8,000 miles of pipelines were laid, and 62 tankers were being built to bring in oil from South America and the Middle East. Domestic demand kept rising also until it reached 622 gallons per capita, v. 464 in 1941. Yet oil production at year's end was 17% above the wartime high; the shortage had been licked so thoroughly that some oil prices had started to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The New Frontiers | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...both stupid and suicidal, one cannot but admire the gallantry of the U-boat crews, who, in spite of the overpowering weight of Allied naval forces, continued to fight in remote areas with undiminished spirit . . . The damage they did was negligible; the losses they suffered were enormous; and yet, alone of all Germany's armed forces, they fought on to the very last day of the war. Their record at sea during the whole war, too, was not as bad as it has been painted. Whatever they might have condoned or even applauded on shore, in all the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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