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...hope you hammer away at things like that until we get enough snap, pride and steel into our Government and its forces to make such conditions impossible. I'm not fond of vulgarities, but I must say it seems as if our guts are sagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...varsity basketball team will be up against a tough opponent when it tries to snap out of a four game losing streak against Penn tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Blockhouse. The once-beaten freshmen will meet Nichols Junior College in the 6:30 p.m. opener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Seeks Upset Tonight Over Fast Quaker Team | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

...light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Rifle | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Crimson Coach Norm Shepard, however, thinks that his boys have "a fighting chance" to upset the Eagles. The Crimson won its first three games before talling to a strong Navy team last Saturday, but Shepard thinks they may very easily snap back tonight and surprise everybody...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Varsity Quintet Set to Stop B.C. Game Winning Streak | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

...Florida-bound flight crashed seven minutes after take-off, killing all 56 persons aboard. In the rest of the country, the weekend storm and cold snap that followed caused 60 other deaths. Highway accidents accounted for most of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plane Crash Kills Florida Bound 56; Cold Hits Nation | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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