Word: brower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the Journal-American found the bus driver, one Morris Brower, a day had passed and Sarno was the accepted hero. When questioned, however, Brower said that he had caught the child, who rolled out of his arms, hit the ground and was then scooped up by Rescuer Sarno. Brower announced that he had witnesses to prove his story. Sarno said he had witnesses...
Reuben A. Brower, currently a professor at Amherst, will become professor of English and General Education here starting July 1, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...Brower, an authority on both Greek and English literature, will teach Humanities courses in the General Education program as well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...
...went through the head cars, coolly instructing passengers to lie down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent a disaster...
Fifty-nine passengers were hurt, only eight seriously (the worst injury was a fractured pelvis). No one in the station was injured. And Engineer Brower-who had stuck courageously to his cab and kept his "hand upon the throttle and his eye upon the rail" until the bitter end- stepped out of the awful wreckage of the locomotive without a scratch to show for his experience...