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...defeating the Quakers, Princeton toppled one team out of the running for the title and tonight will have an opportunity to wipe out any Fesler aspirations for the championship. Because of the Tigers' remarkable showing in their last two encounters and because of the inability of Charlie Lutz to play, the Orange and Black must necessarily be given the nod in this evening's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bengal Five Has Edge in Tonight's Tilt With Varsity | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Harvard professors joined New England Congressional leaders yesterday in endorsing the campaign to wipe out he atrocities of modern warfare, and pledged their support to an international congress to revise the rules of war to protect non-combatants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSORS ATTACK WAR | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

Asked whether the bill had been introduced on the suggestion of the city of Cambridge the tax sponsor replied, "No, I introduced the bill on my own." Foley denied that the excise was aimed to wipe out a deficit in the city treasury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sponsor Says College Property Tax Designed to Meet General Expenses | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

...tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside the body cells, where the antibody for some reason cannot penetrate. The chicken is thus in the unfortunate position of a military com-mander who has enough troops to wipe out an enemy if he could get them out of jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabbit Skin, Chicken Cells | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...puppet governments, in an effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...

Author: By Instructor IN History., | Title: Sino-Japanese Problem Still In Its Infancy, Says Fairbank | 12/16/1937 | See Source »

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