Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 23,002 members of the Lampoon and CRIMSON will meet today bon the fields of friendly strife, as the annual all Garbage weekend opens for the 23rd time in two years...
...Bon Voyage. In St. Peter, Minn., the weekly Herald ran a classified ad: "WANTED: Man to handle dynamite. Must be prepared to travel unexpectedly...
With a personal staff of six chamberlains, Crown Prince Akihito, 19, sailed from Tokyo on the S.S. President Wilson for his first trip abroad, a six-month journey which will take in the coronation in London. Emperor Hirohito gave his son a bon voyage present of pearl cuff links; the Empress personally packed his wardrobe trunk. Both parents watched the Prince's departure on a palace...
...episode foreshadowed more than a bon mot. When Whistler died (in 1903), his famed Mother was almost the only solid which he had not defined gaseously. Like rebellious painters of every era, he believed that his contemporaries never painted what they saw-only what professors had bullied them into believing they saw. In Whistler's magical eyes, all natural objects appeared to be misty, intangible "arrangements," "harmonies" and "symphonies" constructed of overlapping tones of light & shade-which may be why he crept up on an artist absorbed in painting a stone-for-stone facsimile of St. Mark...
...island valley are 106,000 peasants, many of whom must still be convinced that President Magloire's favorite project is bon. Within 40 months, Haiti will have one of the world's highest buttress dams wedged in Peligre Canyon, 225 ft. high and 1,075 ft. wide, backing up some 328 million cubic meters of water. This water will flow 60 miles to the smaller intake dam at Canneau, where it will be diverted into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive...