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They will fight, foot for foot, the enemy's attempt to dash across our land and to reduce the amount of our soil violated by the invader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...only a run-down vacant lot on the edge of East Cambridge. Overgrown with weeds and tall grass, littered with broken bottles and rusty tin cans--hardly an inspiring sight. But add to this eyesore 235 play-hungry kids, a brigade of willing undergraduates, and a dash of cooperation from the City of Cambridge. Result: a recipe for civic improvement. A dash of cooperation? None is forthcoming. The local Park Board has contributed only an official frown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOY'S TOWN FORECLOSED | 5/15/1940 | See Source »

...group [Vassar women] seem to be pugnacious feminists. ... A dash of snobbishness comes in the intellectual line sometimes. . . . None of them I've met is dull, although in a few scattered cases it might seem a public duty to strangle them. As a group I'd rate them high in intelligence, sincerity and the good solid qualities that make good citizens, friends and especially wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vassar Women | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Donahue and Captain Jim Lightbody scored doubles for the Crimson, while Ritter accounted for ten points for the Indians. Winning the hundred yard dash, Ritter broke the Dartmouth record with a 9.9 second performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkolamen Slush Dartmouth; Lightbody, Donahue Top Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Perhaps the best performance of the day was turned in by Roger Shafer. He ran second to Donahue in the hurdles, running the 120-yard highs in 14.8 seconds, his best performance to date. Pushed into the 220-yard dash because of the absence of the regular sprinters, he finished second in the creditable time of 22.2 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkolamen Slush Dartmouth; Lightbody, Donahue Top Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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