Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athletics, has already obtained permission from the Athletic Committee for the Harvard team to accept an offer to appear in New York as the New England representative. "Such participation is considered to be merely an extension of the regular playing season, and not a post-season contest like football bowl games," he explained...
...over the world hungry men waited. And in the Southwestern wheat belt, U.S. farmers had a new Agriculture Department warning to brood over: another dust bowl was in the making. During the war, too much land had been farmed too hard. Now there was grave danger that retributive weather would blow that land away...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
...Meitner got a silver bowl; the others, engraved citations. Then nine of the eleven sat for a picture as notable for its variety of necklines as for its collection of female talent...
...year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...