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If only 4% of its land were properly cultivated, Brazil could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Kilometer 47 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

The almost invincible freshman tennis team won again yesterday afternoon, beating the MIT freshmen by a lopsided 8 to 1 score on the Soldiers Field Courts.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Defeated 8-1 by Freshman Net Squad | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

Still in the dugout at week's end was such costly talent as ailing Clouter Charlie Keller, Pitcher Bob Porterfield and Second Baseman Snuffy Stirnweiss, not to mention DiMag himself. Watching their understudies paste the ball lopsided, some Yankee veterans seemed almost resigned to bench-warming. To cap it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Head Start | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

The popular vote was not so lopsided. The Liberals polled 36% to Union Rationale's 51% (13% more than in 1944). Even a Duplessis worker shook his head sadly: "Too big, too big." An anti-Duplessist summed it up more bitterly: "That guy's been driving around with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Cocky little Bobby Riggs used to be the pet villain of tennis fans, but this time he had the gallery-what there was of it-almost on his side. And he had never yet lost a match in Madison Square Garden. He began the tour there five months ago (when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Question | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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