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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the other shells match the Tigers. Harvard has already bested Yale and MIT, and Princeton has beaten Penn and Columbia. That leaves Cornell the only unknown quantity...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: 150-lb. Crew Rows All-East Regatta | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

Both of these statements about Munch have now been fulfilled, but to the average American concertgoer, the new conductor of the Boston Symphony is still the unknown that he was in the early...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: Charles Munch Becomes New Conductor of Boston Symphony This September | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Bales incarcerates his subjects in a specially rigged conference room and tells them to conduct a meeting. But unknown to them, Bales and his minions are spying on them through a one-way mirror covering one wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bales Creates a New Social Relations Machine | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

With the tying and winning runs on base and one out in the last of the ninth, a virtually unknown utility outfielder named Ed Foynes dropped a single into left field, thus adding a Frank Merriwellian touch to Ira Godin's third success of the season...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Foynes' Pinch-Hit Single Brings Nine 7-6 Win Over Lions | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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