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McNicol's third-period touchdown came with a short but spectacular bit of running and Harvard again failed to convert. Early in the last stanza the visiting Freshmen made their last tally, as left end Barnes snagged another McNicol aerial and lugged the leather the remaining ten yards across the touchdown stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS WHITEWASH WEAK WORCESTER, 19-0 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Kirkland scored first near the end of the first quarter, when Jerry Hall intercepted a Bunny pass and carried the ball to the one yard line. Earl Foster plunged over for the point but the Deacons failed to convert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Snatch 2-0 Win From Lowell; Kirkland Overcomes Bunny Team 12-0 | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Truly international, the Army uses native-born recruits whenever possible. Another source of Army strength, which shocked the Victorians, is that women have absolute parity of privilege, position and dignity. Militant is the Army's terminology. A convert is a "prisoner of war," a service "company meeting," a Salvationist's death "promotion to Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

There were no bones, no ashes: somehow the king had missed his boat. Since King Raedwald was a Christian convert, archeologists surmised that when he died in the year 617 he let his body be interred with Christian rites. But to be doubly sure that he would reach a safe harbor, his pagan subjects launched the funeral ship, let it sail without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Outward Bound | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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