Word: concarneau
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...unclear where that balance of toughness and perspective originates. Hermann hints that it comes from a childhood spent watching her parents, both doctors, deal with the carnage of emergency rooms. Hermann grew up in Concarneau, a fishing port in northern Brittany where car crashes were routine on the rough coastal roads and regularly disrupted the family's evenings. "I was often in the corridors of hospitals for emergencies, and it's funny, but I got used to that sort of activity," she recalls. "Maybe it's why I am so comfortable in fashion, which is so quick and aggressive...
...winner was Philippe Jeantot, the deep-sea diver from Concarneau, France, who idled across the finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through...
...following prizes were awarded: first, W. Ordway '10, "Evening on the Charles"; second, M. T. Fleischner, Pennsylvania, "The Poplars"; third, G. Kemmerer, Pennsylvania, "Moonlight." Honorable mentions were awarded as follows. first, M. T. Fleischner, Pennsylvania, "The Harbor, Concarneau" second, F. F. Marshall '07, "Poetry"; third, M. T. Fleischner, Pennsylvania, "Fishermen of Douarnarnez"; fourth E. H. Riedel 1G., "Long Lake"; fifth, C. B. Roepper '10, 'Sunset, Venice"; sixth, P. M. Armstrong, Michigan, "Early Spring"; seventh, M. S. McN. Watts...
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