Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLLEGE in which most other extracurricular organizations will be dead, the redbrick building on the one-way cow-path, 14 Plympton Street, will continue to be a focus of undergraduate life. The punch-bowl will seldom over-run this summer, but typewriters will still pound on yellow copy-paper the news of the University...
...good measure there is a featured 6th-Century B.C. krater (wine bowl), decorated with alcoholic, carnal highjinks that are unmistakably Freudian...
...Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
What makes "Colonel Blimp" stretch to 146 minutes is its tremendous scope, its three generation historical footnote to the Law burlesque. Beginning called Clive Candy through out of the Bear War, the picture plumps down a punch bowl full of a atmosphere, all very English and very genteel. This was when wars were just "Summer maneuvers" so far as most people were concerned, and the British military set were having a dandy old time...
Died. Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, 66, Yale '01, at whose annual Yale barn parties a silver bowl was awarded to the Eli who had "made his Y in life"; of kidney poisoning; in Montclair, N.J. A favorite dictum of retired Stockbroker Roberts: "Let me hire the office boy; I am willing to have someone else hire the others...