Word: birches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sauna, rocks are heated on a special Finnish stove, and water is poured over them at intervals, causing an instantaneous release of "dry" heat, according to club president Peter A. A. Berle, '58. Purists beat one another with birch twigs, and finish by racing from the 180* sauna into a snowbank. Berle called the sauna "very relaxing...
...villagers who wandered the birch-laden slopes near Lake Tuusula in southern Finland were accustomed to seeing the massive old man in his Homburg and precisely tailored business suit walking slowly along the shaded lanes, easing his weight on a heavy stick. Invariably, they saluted him, for they knew that they were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard...
...French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives. "Our men were not lacking in invention either," the White narrator laconically admits...
David L. T. Birch...
...rough and hard-fought contest was a scoreless tie until senior Ted Hollander scored from close-in at 16:22 of the second period. Wylde made it 2 to 0 only 37 seconds later when he converted a goal-mouth pass from Dave Birch...