Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the seemingly impenetrable Sierra, Gheerbrant needed the help of local Indians. His principle was nonviolence, his method diplomacy. Sometimes negotiations began with a bow and arrow aimed at a white man's heart and ended with Gheerbrant allowing savages to tug his beard and strip him of his possessions. But his supreme instrument of diplomacy was a Mozart symphony. Military marches left the Indians impassive; Louis Armstrong's trumpeting failed to send them; but Mozart always soothed the savage breast. "Such music." Gheerbrant writes, "did not . . . clamp down a mask of fear on [their] faces ... It opened...
This is a year of firsts. Everest was climbed, then an Englishman ran a four minute mile. The odd Ibis-crowned building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets has been scaled innumerable times by men, but yesterday noon the first woman conqueror of the Lampoon Building, Adrienne L. deChetelat '46, posed for photographs in front of the well-traveled Ibis, which incidentally seems to be facing the CRIMSON Building again...
Eric Oddleifson, whom Rouner promoted from the J.V.s last week, remains at stroke. Four others have been moved up from the undefeated junior varsity: Bill Lawrence, Frank Maybank, Bill Lindemulder, and Bob Warren, who will row 7, 6, 2, and Bow respectively...
...Lieut. General Joseph M. Swing, 60, recently retired, to be Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. ¶ Welcomed Nebraska's new Senator, Mrs. Eva Bowring (TIME, April 26) to Washington with a discussion of the relative merits of single-barrel (Ike's choice) and double-barrel shotguns (Mrs. Bow-ring's). The President, said Rancher Bowring, "made a Sandhiller feel right at home. He grows...
Racing conditions were so bad that the Princeton freshman boat, somewhat hindered by a ripped bow canvas sank after the finish of the race. The oarsmen were picked up by several launches. In that race waves surged past the bows of the shells, splashing the oarsmen in all four boats...