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...freshman title, edging Hollis by a scant two points, eight to six. All Lionel's scoring came in the 165-lb. match, as Gerry O'Connor defeated teammate Stan Freedman. Two Hollis boxers, Vin Aok and Ray Gallo, reached the finals, but each lost the decision. John Bower beat Aock in the 135-lb. class and John Todd decisioned Gallo in the 155-lb. match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Out-Boxes Winthrop to Win House Title Again | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...three meet agan in Sicily, where King Richard pauses for a while; and Robert, John and Guy pass a languishing time in the bower of the Lady Melisande des Préaux, of Richard's court: "We trod on velvet there, on turf that some miracle of watering had kept soft and green as a nunnery lawn, past tall late lillies and dark cypress trees, down tiled paths between beds of yellow and red roses, at last to a colonnade of white fluted columns, the earth between set thick with violet leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mildly Mock-Archaic | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Rules are adjusted to Peach House conditions with the consent of John L. Bower, Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and his wife who share the house and act as house-parents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peach House Coop Takes Freshmen, Snares Unwary Males in Kitchen | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...lost bower, The grave's drouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: POET'S POET | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

During summer months, these green dicta issue from an ivory bower, a rustic, century-old house near Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mental Pushups | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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