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There is an old and proven basketball axiom that it is hard to look good against a poor team. Sloppy basketball is infectious, and the hackers will invariably pull the better outfit down to their level. Harvard not only descended against the Elis; it stooped lower than...
...pull it out, send it soaring again, WPB this week gave more power to the director of its Aircraft Control Resources Office. T. P. (for Theodore Paul) Wright, crack aeronautical engineer and production man, got full authority over manpower, materials and machine tools for plane production. To the armed services, irked by civilian control over war building, no civilian could have been more acceptable. Ted Wright, onetime director of engineering and vice president of Curtiss-Wright, is an old hand at dealing with them, should be able to sweat more aircraft through WPB's red tape...
...until his second throw in the final round that Fisher was able to pull ahead of the Ithacan star and gain for Harvard a title which it has not held since Murdock Finlayson's heave...
...credit of all concerned that, in the face of service-depleted ranks, and greater time demands on those remaining at school, the Glee Club has continued to pull through in such fine fashion. It is hoped that any further restrictions due to the present situation will in no way impair the twenty-one concert schedule so admirably begun last night...
Against Army yesterday, the Crimson hopped to a quick 2 to 0 lead on goals by Billy Harding and Mare Beebe before seven minutes were up. The Varsity played good hockey, but two slips in the short space of six seconds enabled the Cadets to pull up to a tie in the eighteenth minute, when Frenchy Cyr and Hall Beukema pulled a brother act on two rapid tallies...