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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the local papers have been meaning that the B.C. team was hopelessly crippled, that they would be cold most for the first merely average team that came along. Last night's game proved otherwise. Instead of fretting about his injured players and trying to construct three lines and two defenses, Eagle coach Snooks Kelley merely reduced the number of skaters. He operated with just two lines and alternated three defensemen--those nine players showed themselves to be probably the best collegiate hockey team in the East...

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

Nature Was There. As men construct better calculating machines, explains Wiener, and as they explore their own brains, the two seem more & more alike. Man, he thinks, is recreating himself, monstrously magnified, in his own image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Man's Image | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...program aims also at improving the parking situation. The Association will ask the city to construct a public parking lot with meters and to place more meters in MacArthur Square. Suggestions for improvement of the traffic situation will also be brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Plans Streamlining | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...Council apparently doesn't favor my plan," Bender said, and then conceded, "You could construct a poll that would give useful information." Pressed by the Council, however, he would not guarantee that poll results would cause the University to schedule an outside investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Outlines Food Poll | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...atmosphere of "war no more, a world of united nations and reconciliation floating before our vision," suggestions for a church, a garden, theater, gymnasium, monument, scholarships, institute of international relations, and dormitories poured in from all sides. Not until May of 1925, however, was a resolution finally adopted to construct a church, the most fitting commemoration to the 373 Harvard men who died in that "religious war--greater by far than any of the old Crusades in its principles...

Author: By Herbert P. Glesson, | Title: World War I Memorial Product of 15 Year Struggle | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

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