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Anyone who had been around during the previous months noticed the difference right away--where there had been naught there was plenty: in attendees at classes, extra-curricular activitiers, Widener users. And what was more, the influx--unless, as TIME claimed, it was the co-ordination with spring that did it--put life and love and pow! into all and sundry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Been a Hard Year Since February, Harry . . . . For Renaissance Was Just Around the Corner | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

Matched in a pitching duel with Jim Doole of Dartmouth, Johnny Knowles turned in a sparkling, five-hit performance at Hanover, Saturday, but it all went for naught as the Crimson batters failed to drive a tally across the platter and went down to defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth-Inning Run Gives Dartmouth Shutout Triumph | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...task yet lies before the United Nations that time and tireless effort cannot accomplish. Time, however, is grudgingly granted by a people curiously expectant of modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quo Vadimus? | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

...blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years in the Burma police, learned ''what the ten-year soldier tells: 'If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Road to Mandalay | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

With lips as red as a sugar beet With arms as white as a 'Muda onion, I'll follow her until my feet Are naught but corns and flaming bunions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bunions in the Bayous | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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