Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshman eight and last year stroked the first crew against Navy and Tenn and the jayvees against Yale Lawrence stroked the combination crew two years ago. Swaim was stroke and captain of his Freshman crew and last year stroked the University against Tech and Cornell and rowed bow on the second University against Yale Pearson stroked the combination crew last June A. H. Parker '32, Freshman pace setter last year, has been playing football. None of the stroking candidates have had four-mile experience, but all have been seasoned in races...
Five minutes to noon. Massed along the pavements of London's Ludgate Hill last week and down the Strand were thousands of excited school children, cynical salesladies, brokers, clerks. Noon. Bow Bells, all the bells of London, clanged in tingling cacophony. An escort of mounted police clattered up the empty street and the great procession started. The Worshipful His Lordship, the new Lord Mayor of London was on has way from Guildhall to take his oath of office at the Courts of Justice in the Strand...
...Bernardston, Mass., Raymond Phelps, eight, killed a squirrel with a bow and arrow...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, a herds-boy, twelve, killed a lioness with a bow and arrow...
...King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror heroically resisted." "If Nadir doesn't become King, we shall all go away!" chorused the tribesmen, or words to that effect. Still the Conqueror held temptation at bay, but after some further shouting he was seen to bow his head. After profound meditation he spoke huskily: "Allah is my witness, I did not want to become King! But I am the servitor of the tribes of my country. Since the People designate me King, I accept! Let us pray." After the fervent prayer cannon boomed...