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...Chase's topflight men, Orrin Wood and Art Leo, are on the sick list, and the Crimson starting line is composed of Tommy Ayres, moved from center to left wing, Bill Hamlen, who has been elevated to the center slot, and Ned Harding, operating from his customary left wing position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chase Makes Coaching Debut Today As Unbeaten Yardlings Face Andover | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

...means by which infantile paralysis is spread far & wide has been discovered. The common house fly, according to topflight Poliomyelitis Researcher Albert Bruce Sabin and Robert Ward of the University of Cincinnati, is a carrier of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flies & Polio | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...beer chug-a-lugged tonight is not ipso facto the beginning of the road to fame, but for successful candidates it may eventually lead to topflight undergraduate position, and is in any case the first of a succession of bears and other good things to be enjoyed in the Plympton Street emporium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON COMPETITIONS FOR THREE BOARDS OPEN TONIGHT | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

...Quartermaster Corps generally did its prime job: providing the best housing, whatever the cost, in time to shelter emergency soldiers. But the sad and overweighing fact was that the Quartermaster Corps job was not topflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Job for the Engineers | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Edmund Wilson's ranking among topflight U.S. literary critics will not be bolstered by his new book. But he still writes, as few Americans can, with the dry-wine deftness of a cultivated Frenchman. And his findings are still of value to all serious students of literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scars of Childhood | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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