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Taking a firm grip on Kenneth Robert's "Lydia Bailey" she announced, "But gosh, I'm going to get married and I don't know what I'm doing here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 99---Count 'Em---99 Girls Finish Annex Summer Secretarial, Publishing Courses at Week's End | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

Last week, to the fans' surprise, and to Connie's too, the astonishingly athletic Athletics were playing first-division ball. Arriving at Shibe Park for a home stand, they took a firmer grip on fourth place. Not since 1934 had they stood so high so late in the season. Said their old Manager Mack, who is 84 now: "I've been in baseball a long time,* but I've never seen a team like this one for spirit and determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gracious! Fourth Place | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

While all Cambridge peeled off clothing and waited for the promised thunder-showers yesterday evening, the U. S. Weather Bureau was forecasting for today the first break in the sweltering heat wave which has held the Boston area in its grip since Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Strips To Beat Heat; Cooler Today | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...mean me. Why I'm here to study, of course," she lisped, regaining a fierce grip on the collected works of Havelock Ellis.Bitter bear alone: What man will fill the empty chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Reenforcements Roll In | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...visiting a shrine. . . . Communism is now a fully fledged religion which claims to be of universal application. . . . It has a tremendous literature of commentary and exegesis, and all the usual saints and martyrs and heresies. . . . It is rigidly orthodox and highly fanatical. . . . And this . . . religion has really got a grip on the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Positive Faith? | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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