Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bells of St. Helen's. "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey. "When I shall grow rich?" Say the bells of Shot-editch. "Pray when will that be?" Say the bells of Stepnev. "I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" Says the great bell at Bow. - Old jingle...
...tradition the true London Cockney was "horn within sound of Bow bells" ringing from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside. The church's name came from the "bows" (arches) on which its first building was raised above London's swamps. In the 19th Century...
...Saturday a fighting but inexperienced Harvard crew was forced to bow to the superior skill of the Universities of Washington, Yale and Cornell, finishing fourth in the Intercollegiate Rowing Championships held at Long Beach, California. Washington won, nosing Yale out of first place by about six feet...
...season, for it consisted entirely of Junior Varsity and Freshman oarsmen. The crimson had earlier beaten the University of California at Los Angeles to qualify for the finals. The Harvard boating; Coxswain, Bissell; Stroke, Drury; 7, Swayze; 6, Robertson; 5, Pierce; 4, Beane; 3, Atherton; 2, Whipple; Bow, Nickerson...
...other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been waiting for. This time when the Harvard beat went up, the bow of the Harvard shell began to creep along Yale's gunwhale slowly & steadily until the boats were even half a mile from the finish. They stayed that way for quarter of a mile until Coxswain Bissell called for a Harvard stroke of 37. He held it for six beats, turned...