Word: bower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Little more than bare dirt when the Butlers bought the house shortly after World War II, the garden now blooms with some 300 varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees. Other amateur gardeners stop by to ask for cuttings and to trade notes on lush hybrid ivy. Such a bower well fulfills that dream of true Englishmen expressed in 1664 by Poet Abraham Cowley: "I never had any other desire so strong ... as that I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden...
THERE ARE NO indications that Bower sock's efforts will fare any better. The reform's language alone is hardly compelling. The legislation asks that "normally" full-time faculty members teach a minimum of one tutorial each term, providing a loophole for innumerable abnormal exceptions. The student-faculty committee may only "recommend remedial steps" to the head tutor and chairman. If department heads choose to ignore committee recommendations, so be it. Finally, the reforms humbly beg that "consideration should be given to the possibility" of hiring lecturers for tutorial instruction...
Bentley's leading scorer. Kevin Bower, tried to pull the Falcons back into the game, sinking two jump shots from the corners, but Bentley was forced to foul to gain possession of the ball and Allen and Fine (the leading scorers with 26 and 20 points respectively) kept pumping in the free throws, putting the game out of reach...
...Fleming 10 1 4 0 0 1 0 2 2 TOTALS 200 28 69 29 34 41 18 18 85 FG% 47.5; FT% 85.3; Team rebounds 5; Turnovers 16. BENTLEY Min FG FGA FT FTA REB ASST PF PTS Betley 21 4 12 0 0 6 2 3 8 Bower 37 9 17 2 2 7 3 2 20 Gervais 13 3 4 0 0 6 1 5 6 Vetrano 34 7 10 2 2 2 8 4 16 Sparks 26 5 13 0 0 0 5 1 10 Faison 21 5 11 2 2 1 1 5 12 Dougherty...
Then came Bentley's Bower, and the game was over. Jack Sparks hit both ends of a one-and-one, and Brian Banks dropped in a lay-up in the last three seconds, but by that point it was unimportant...