Word: bowes
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Twenty-one years ago, a quiet young Englishman named Philip Beale visited Java and fell in love with a ship. To be precise, it was a picture of a ship, a sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built...
Epps was an easily recognizable figure on campus, sporting his trademark pinstriped suit and bow tie as he took jaunts through the Yard, lunched in Loker and interacted with students. In fact, his wife, Suffolk University Professor of Law Valerie C. Epps noted with an affectionate, reminiscent laugh that Epps owned “well over 50 bow ties” at the time of his death...
Epps was an easily recognizable figure on campus, sporting his trademark pinstriped suit and bow tie as he took jaunts through the Yard, lunched in Loker and interacted with students. In fact, his wife, Suffolk University Professor of Law Valerie C. Epps noted with an affectionate, reminiscent laugh that Epps owned “well over 50 bow ties” at the time of his death...
...some ways CEO purgatory has been a familiar place for Prince, a quiet lifetime sidekick who once postponed his kidney surgery to help Weill close a deal. He has always been on hand when Weill is taking a bow. But he is the man on whom Weill has relied consistently in the crunch. "I've seen Sandy turn to Chuck over and over again," says a banker who has worked with both men. And Prince's willingness to recognize the good work of others and even let them take credit endears him to many...
...crossed the passage over 40 times, and this is the worst I've ever seen it," was the promising summary from our expedition leader Aaron, as 20-meter waves smashed over the bow of our ice vessel. The wind was bordering on cyclone intensity and, with another lethal wall of icy water rearing up, I began to appreciate why the fierce 1,000-kilometer Drake Passage?renowned for consuming ships as they round Cape Horn?is considered one of the fundamental barriers to Antarctic tourism. The others are exorbitant cost, the remoteness and (should you ever forget it) the cold...