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Word: bowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bertelsen, starting at seven, was on an excellent high school crew at Washington and Lee. Tom Shefiled at bow, Hal Smith at two, Bob Tyler at five, and Dave Sutherland at six round out his crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman 150 Crew Opens Against M.I.T. | 4/23/1955 | See Source »

...Rajputana in central India lies the high rock of Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of Chitor, the Rajputs held out against the invading Moguls. The Rajputs wore armor and fought with spears; the Moguls used cannon. In the last decisive engagement, a lucky Mogul shot killed the Rajput chieftain Jaimal, and the garrison, losing hope, performed the dreaded rite of jauhar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Reconquest of Chitor | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...threat followed an attempt by a CRIMSON editor earlier Wednesday to find out whether lack of funds had forced Feeney and his group to vacate their headquarters on the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets, opposite Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feeney Group Warns Pusey To Thwart Crimson Articles | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

...Mamie spied the maneuver, gaily cried: "Don't hide it. I think it's pretty." Muttered blushing Ledova Crane: "It's not really the same." "Oh, yes it is," bubbled Mamie as she opened Mrs. Crane's frantically clutched cape. "You just took off the bow. What a good idea!" Later, Ledova Crane confided to newsmen at tea: "I was so embarrassed I could die." Even more embarrassed was Manhattan Designer Mollie Parnis, who confessed that there are 89 more frocks just like Ledova's in circulation. Moaned Mollie: "I'm ready to crawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...lighter note, Walt Disney's Tomorrowland (ABC, Wed. 7:30 p.m., E.S.T.) made its bow with a lively film-and-animation look at man's attempts to reach the moon via rocket ship. Most authentic touch: the serious, heavily accented explanation of the nation's own German born rocket experts, Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun. To pay a Person-to-Person (CBS Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.) visit to Internal Revenue Boss T. Coleman Andrews at his modest 4½-room apartment in Parkfairfax, Va., CBS's Ed Murrow unearthed an odd fact: Collector Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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