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Once you got inside you aren't quite so sure. The faces are strange, the plays look more like the Chicago Bears than Harvard. One or two of the players bring back other days, but you're probably just about ready to tap someone on the shoulder and check your location when you catch sight of the indestructible element, the Harvard in Harvard football...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Passing the Buck | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...wants the lines used for petroleum products, will give first choice to buyers or lessors who promise to use it for them. One reason: Big Inch's daily throughput of 300,000 barrels of crude, Little Big Inch's 235,000 barrels of gasoline would be on tap for any national emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inch by Inch | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

With an outstanding Medical School close by it is hard to understand why Harvard cannot tap the store of medical talent allied to the University through Graduate School instructors and faculty members. The plan is in use at midwestern colleges and has provided for inexpensive care to the student body in a broad area covering nearly all the diagnostic and surgical services. A University-maintained pharmacy would supplement these services and go toward the institution of a Health Service closely attuned to the needs and capacities of most students. Clearly these improvements should be considered as an integral part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hygiene, Ltd. | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

Obstructionist. In Trinidad, an irate landlord sued David Cork for plugging the water tap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez' own electoral fief. At Ivry the constitution had been carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Challenger | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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