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...other polls continued to show a majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Just before yesterday's downpour the Varsity lacrosse team inflicted on Tufts a 10-0 shutout at the Business School Field, while the Freshman team, in their first taste of competition, lost to the Tufts cubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team takes Tufts 10-0 in Home Season Opener | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

Thursday afternoon during a driving spring downpour, a smoothly functioning Maryland ten smashed through the defense of the team from the North to the score of 11-3. In spite of Maryland's large lead, Coach Skip Stahley was delighted to see his men show considerable improvement over their first showing in Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN OVERWHELMED IN VACATION MATCHES | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...five were interviewed at their desolated posts near Falmouth just before a downpour drenched their slick brown uniforms. Scornfully superior to members of the infantry who carried heavy rifles and shiny bayonets, the Harvard doughboys brandished nightsticks as official members of the artillery division 101, Battery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Brave Elements To Serve With State Militia | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...months, the balloon, billowing up in the Teruel-to-the-Mediterranean front, has been in Leftist hands. Last week, unable to stand up under the downpour of shells, bald-domed General Jose Miaja, commander-in-chief on the Leftists' southern front, inched his troops backward, holed up in new trenches dug across the neck of the balloon in the rugged Sierra Espadan Mountains. Against this straightened, bristling front line of barbed wire, concrete machine-gun emplacements running from just northwest of Viver, 34 miles from Valencia on the Teruel-Sagunto road, to the seacoast 30 miles away, the Rightists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Balloons Burst | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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