Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their line with the humble devotion of a lover." The Princess de Broglie was not only a great beauty but a great lady, among whose descendants are some of France's leading critics, writers and scientists, including the present family head, Maurice, Due de Broglie and his brother, Nobel Prizewinner Prince Louis de Broglie, both atomic physicists and members of the Académic Francaise...
While Australia was still blinking at Ilsa's tremendous race, brother Jon got up on the starting block for the men's 880-yd. freestyle, gazed calmly at his opponents (who included three Olympic swimmers), and hit the water as if fired from the starting pistol. Flat out, he thrashed home in 9:17.7, 1.5 sec. faster than the old world record held by the U.S.'s George Breen, who set the mark when he was 21. Konrads' furious freestyling also smashed Breen's world record for the 800 meters...
...said I was worrying, and I knew then I had to get that school off my mind." Smith talked his brother-in-law into helping him and swore his daughter to secrecy. "I never painted a school before. There were 241 openings I had to paint. I had to paint things the same color as they were, because I was afraid to change things. I figured when they found out I was doing it for nothing, I'd end up in jail." Smith's job saved the city more than $1,000, and for the time being...
...Yeller himself, a flop-eared hound with soulful eyes, who behaves as if he were trying to persuade Disney to invent a new cartoon character called Supermutt. He stops a bear that is charging the kid brother, rescues the older brother from a pack of wild hogs, saves the mother from being chewed up by a maddened wolf. The action, in short, is exciting for everybody, but all too often the dialogue is only for the very young. Sample: Kid Brother (after the family cow is killed) : "How come you shot old Rose?" Big Brother: "She was sick." Kid Brother...
Reider maintained this margin, but Yale's Ed Slowik passed the Crimson's Art Cahn just before the pass to the anchor-men. Slowik's brother John, who previously had finished second in the Farrell 500, fought off several challenges by Ed Martin of the Crimson, and finally pulled away at the gun-lap to win by some ten yards...