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...original sponsors of the affair which is sceduled for Thursday evening in Symphony Hall, Professor Mathiessen is the lone Harvard, professor of the three who first backed the measure now affirming his first stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Meeting in Boston Causes Break Among Faculty Sponsors | 3/25/1941 | See Source »

...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Banana Raider | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...time there was no such debate, no such delay. Pennsylvania's Charles Faddis down-with-Japanned; Representatives who had fought improvements for Guam two years ago now paid their respects to the "contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the Rising Sun." The authorization went through by acclamation, with one lone Nay registered against it: the methodical, dutiful Nay of New York's left-wing Vito Marcantonio, who has voted against almost every bill for U. S. defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Passage to India | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Harvard usually has one period in which it skates all over the opposition, and on Saturday evening it was the second. The Varsity went into it trailing 3 to 1, with the lone Crimson goal credited to George Duane in the closing second of the first period when the puck ricocheted off a Dartmouth skate and past the goalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX EDGED BY GREEN, 5 TO 4 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...last game, the flashy-looking but low-scoring league leading Puritans defeated Leverett on goals by Goldthwait, Wood, and Abbott. Gigantic Will Nichoil tallied Leverett's lone marker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND, DORM, WINTHROP WIN | 2/11/1941 | See Source »

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