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...teapots. Driving-wheels about the size of the largest felt hat you would see in the College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke-stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Through the Past, Howsomever- The Crimson, 1876 | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...side, England's historic Bamburgh Castle loomed up on a craggy promontory above the North Sea. On the other, hundreds of movie extras, dressed as medieval soldiers, crouched behind uprooted spruce and pine trees. Suddenly, groaning and clanking, huge siege catapults hurled fireballs through the air toward the castle. The climactic battle scene in a new film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth was under way. As black smoke billowed into the sky, the extras threw down their camouflage and charged the spiky fortifications with a battering ram and scaling ladders. Exciting stuff? "These epic scenes bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Macbeth by Daylight | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

Harvard's polo team will play its first home match of the season Saturday when it faces the University of Pennsylvania in the Pine Hill Riding Center, Framingham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Will Host Penn In Season's Home Opener | 1/22/1971 | See Source »

...lost too many and are bound to unload one of these days. Plus they are playing at home with a very partisan crowd, and know that if they lose to us, they're out of the Ivy League race. I'm afraid they'll be higher than a Georgia pine." he said...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Indians Challenge Cagers Tonight | 1/19/1971 | See Source »

...Watson Rink are usually social gatherings for the small but devoted contingent of clubbies and jocks who follow Harvard hockey. But tonight the fans won't be able to switch ends between periods to heckle the opposing goalie, or wander around looking for friends, or pick up stray Pine Manor girls...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Skaters Face Powerful B.U. Sextet | 12/9/1970 | See Source »

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