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Word: bower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catherine Bower, vice-President of the National Public Housing Conference, G. Holmes Perkins '26, professor of Regional Planning, and Richard A. Holman 3L, outgoing president of the Law School Forum, presented a 20-minute program about Boston's traffic and housing problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TV Debut for Law Forum | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

Recent balloting has boosted Ellon Bower '50 to the president's chair of the Annex Orchestra. Alicia Steeves '51 will take over the dual post of vice-president and treasurer, and Claire Ham '50 was elected secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchestra Picks Ellen Bower as New Head | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman for his "lady's bower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Elsa's Gazebo | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Right Bower. As Ed's successor, the convention picked shaggy-browed Allan Kline, 52, of Iowa, who has long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: So Long, Ed | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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