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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...softball game on Wednesday which the Funsters won 8 to 7, the Bellboys from Lowell staged a three run rally in the last half of the last inning to no avail; but they came back in the baseball game yesterday to nose out the Funsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Coast Takes Two From Dudley | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Before We Part | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...tracing telephone wires, police found two other houses which contained hidden bookie offices. Outside one of them, two WOCD men sat in a car waiting for the police to come out, when two members of the gang drove up. They threatened the students, but "Threatened to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Play Policeman, Trip Up Bookie Ring | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

...that we would rather have to scrimp the rest of our lives than leave any other people in need and despair anywhere on this earth, then the end result will be that those who will have the power to form the peace will go about their task free to avail themselves of that tremendous force which is rising all over the world even now, the longing for and the insistence on a world of peace and brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians are not inclined to take invasion seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Consternation Piece | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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