Word: barres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally got the fourth ball...
...First Tunic." In the midst of national confusion, President Félix Gouin kept a Socialist calm, said, "The main virtue of the Constitution is that it exists." Other leaders deplored the possibility that Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...
...Barr Peterson '47 was re-elected president of the Glee Club in the annual banquet and business meeting of the Club, held Thursday evening at the Harvard Club of Boston. The group chose Peter Tomkins '46 for the vice-presidential post and Roger S. Kuhn '46 as secretary...
When the late Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey had to be forcibly ejected from a Cathedral service for vociferating against Manning's attacks on "companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might.'" That hymn might have been his motto in his battles with advocates of easy divorce, isolationists, opponents of pan-Christian unity, proponents of a Presbyterian-Episcopalian merger...
...appointees, including two men from each of the upper classes, are: Arthur C. McGill '48, Frederick S. Pratt '48, E. Barr Peterson '47, Edward J. Sullivan '47, Bennet R. Keenan '46, and Saul L. Sherman '46. The members of the Council who will serve on the nominating committee are, aside, from Bell, Jerome E. Andrews of the NROTC, William S. Ellis ocC, John C. Harper '46, Peter G. Harwood of the NROTC, and Thomas L. P. O'Donnell...