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Student car-owners have cursed the petty gendarmes who tirelessly tag cars boarded on local streets. But far more swift and dreadful adversaries awaited the unwitting drivers who lit out of Cambridge for an interterm breather.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nutmeg Cops Waive Lairs, Nab Speeders by Air Waves | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

It was more like a tragi-comedy in two acts than a basketball game at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night, as Cornell defeated Harvard in a dreadful little performance, 51 to 42.

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Quintet Blows Halftime Lead, Bows to Cornell | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Get Him When He's Down. At this point the other enemies of promise smell blood and close in. While Mr. Shelleyblake is struggling to write the book that he is in fact incapable of writing, he gets a warm note from "Mr. Vampire," a literary editor: "I was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Kills Cock Robin? | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Dreadful Spew. The Portland was a 291-ft. side-wheeler, trim with white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Last Voyage | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Last Voyage | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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