Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Carolina, old (75), adamant Governor James F. Byrnes was "shocked" but calm. The fanfare with which South Carolina changed its constitution to permit it to abandon its public schools had been interpreted as a warning to the Supreme Court. Now that the court has disregarded the warning, it remains to be seen whether South Carolina will actually carry out the threat...
...except for two men, which won the 1952 Olympics. Last season this eight went undefeated and was seriously challenged only once, by Harvard, in the Eastern Sprints at Washington, D.C. This season the Middie eight hasn't lost a race and last Saturday set a two mile record over calm Onondada Lake. In terms of a mile and three-quarter race, the time would be near...
What is left? A few hundred frames of calm beauty, a quiet memory of a sort of negative Eden, the last backward look into a primitive demi-paradise lost (little more than a year after these pictures were taken, Chinese Communist armies moved into Tibet). The camera sees the herds of yak grazing below icy peaks in meadows of wild orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high...
...varsity race begins at 4:30 p.m. and will be run on the calm waters of Lake Carnegie, an artificial lake approximately a mile and three quarters long which was constructed with a donation of Andrew Carnegie...
Repette, who beat Tufts last Thursday, 11 to 4, will be backed by a calm Stuffy McGinnis, ace relief pitcher. Phil Haughey will be behind the plate with John Simourtan at first, Bob Hastings at second, Bob Barnet at third, and Matt Botsford at short. Joel Bernstein, Dick Fisher, and Don Nickerson will patrol the outfield...