Word: afternoon
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...pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage around the world, Robert FitzRoy, her captain, would entertain his officers with readings from the Bible. A painting of such an event is one of the illustrations in Alan Moorehead's book. Depicted as a drab civilian among the scarlet naval persons present, the ship's naturalist, Charles Darwin, also clutches a Bible. The Beagle's Bibles contained an annotation dictated by the Anglican Archbishop Ussher, firmly stating that the Creation began promptly at 9 a.m., Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. After...
...A.P.E.A.'s hands are tied; it can do nothing to stop this injustice. It is up to Quincy House to act on the illegal affairs of Wednesday afternoon. Granted, Dancer's Image was stripped only of the Kentucky Derby crown, whereas Tarnas would be forced to surrender the Quincy House Pancake Eating championship, But he deserves the punishment. Honest contestants must not be made victims of such trickery...
Grunting through a rainy afternoon, the Pigs triumphed over the Goats by a score of 19-0 at Eastern Michigan University, winning the cherished Pig Bowl trophy-a slop pail. The real winners, however, were needy children of the Ann Arbor area. Some 3,000 tickets were sold for the benefit game to buy Christmas toys. The Pig Bowl was also, in a small way, a victory for reason and humor. The Goats were none other than the police of Ann Arbor, and the Pigs were the Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies, who know how to put an epithet...
...undetermined number of blacks were "temporarily suspended" by May Thursday afternoon after they refused to leave University Hall...
...rred on by Dave Hynes's second consecutive four-goal production, the freshman hockey team combined excellent team play and scrappy defense to crush Brown's freshmen, 10-2. Saturday afternoon at Watson Rink...