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Beating out Yale by a slim margin of 106 to 93, M.I.T. captured the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup in the 16th annual races held Sunday in the Charles River Basin, off its own Nautical Association Floats...
...permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest of all weapons is a playtoy of national sovereignty...
...debt in 1882 to the tune of several hundred dollars, the Crimson was forced to seek refuge under the wing of Mother Advocate (whom World War II has finally stunned). By a one vote margin of the editors assembled, the Crimson was continued. Instead of dropping its name in favor of the older publication, the fortnightly Crimson joined the fortnightly Advocate in printing on alternate weeks...
Last Friday the Varsity welcomed Wyndol Gray back into action by beating Boston University, 55 to 41, in an unofficial practice game at the Indoor Athletic Building. With the exception of a few minutes early in the second half when the Terriers narrowed the margin to five points, the game was pretty much a replica of the two previous encounters...
...teams could not have been more evenly matched than were the Crimson and the Sailors as they battled to a 30 to 28 half-time lead for Harvard, a lead based on the slender margin of three extra foul shots. But a revised defense in the second half put the clamps on Chelsea scoring and enabled the Stahlmen to forge ahead to their twelfth straight victory...