Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find a place for her to stay, he came to grief. At hotels and tourist homes in Boston and around the Square, he either got brush-offs or exorbitant prices. When the hour of her arrival at South Station found him with nothing better for her than a park bench, Pumley was thinking seriously of the Bridge...
First year law students saw a court of appeals in action Monday night. Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, and W. Covington Hardee, of the Law School faculty, argued an Ames mock trial before a bench composed of two law professors and a Boston lawyer...
...addition to his actual coaching duties, Maras is often used as a scout--his report on Colgate was a big factor in the Crimson's victory--or as a spotter from the pressbox, phoning information and advice to the bench during the course of the game. He rounds out his job with some movie narration, to undergraduate as well as alumni groups...
...missionary, Xavier was more like a streetcorner preacher than the polished diplomat some historians make him out to be. In Bologna, Italy he had attracted attention "by standing on a vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with...
...little girls, Pressman Toy Corp. has a vanity table with ruffled plastic skirt, which comes complete with bench, mirror, comb & brush, and perfume atomizer...