Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Samuel Eliot Morison writes: "The Atlantic, which since the dawn of history has been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...
...Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council of Churches and stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., took to the air to bring Christmas good will to the armed forces. Cardinal Spellman laid the cornerstone of a new Catholic church in Tokyo and contributed $5,000 to help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general...
...General Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. approved an exchange visit of church leaders between Russia and the U.S. in the indefinite future. The proposal, said Council President Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), came originally from the Russians. After communicating with Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and the U.S. State Department, Dr. Blake said, he expects a Russian delegation of Baptists, Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...other five positions, from tackle to tackle, are not secured permanently. At present at the tackles, Carl Berner, the only other non-sophomore probable starter, and Roger Garret have an edge over Frank Vadney and Bob Blake...
Here we see echoing juxtapositions of Yeats' "beast slouching toward Jerusalem," Blake's "Tiger," and the pioneer-figure, which by a number of double inversions, we may conclude to be John Harvard...