Word: couches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high jump resulted in a triple tie between John Bunker, Mike Zara, and the visitors' Ralph Ryan; while Dave Ives led the distance leapers. Mike Ford, Chet d'Autremont, and Bill Couch swept the pole vault for Harvard...
Mike Ford is the leading pole vaulter with Chet d'Autremont not quite able to equal Ford's 13 feet as yet. Bill Couch and Steve Brooks are the other vaulters. The hammer throw has Bob Chase and Tom White both guaranteeing performances better than 140 feet with Chases a shade more than that. Harold Smith is the third tosser in that event. At this point the javelin is probably Mikkola's weakest event, with an undeveloped group led by Tem Lacey, John Ordway, and Bob Chase...
...Library, but intends it for part of our education, it should correct its choice of books. For when the frenzy of Washington jingoism succeeds in permeating the Yard there will no longer be any reason for remaining at Harvard. We can then go home, curl up on the couch with that useful anesthetic, Out of the Night, and remain lost in a morbid phantasmagoria while we await the postman with his message from the Department of War. Leo Marx '41 Editor of the Harvard. Progressive...
After failing in an attempt to enter the room through the door, the fire-fighters broke in through the windows. When the smoke had cleared from the room, a burning couch and the other furnishings were carried out, and the fire quickly burned itself...
Just as engaging as his people are Bemelmans' animals and still lifes. He saw an agonized baroque statue of Jesus crowned with a Shirley Temple wig; a native painting of a waterfall which resembled "noodle soup running down over a green couch"; a sloth's "unfinished face"; a fly, the description of whose trajectories is one of the most delectable pieces of animal-writing in literature...