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...number for which she is most famous is Water Boy, an old Negro work song, but she has in her repertory some 200 tunes, including This Land Is Your Land, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bum, Pay Day at Coal Creek. She is a keening Irishwoman in Foggy Dew, a chain-gang convict in Take This Hammer, a deserted lover in Lass from the Low Country. Her dark, handsomely pliant voice has none of the whisky rawness long idolized in such untutored folk singers as Lead Belly or Bessie Smith. But what she may lack in sheer, gutsy exuberance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baby in the Cradle | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...call for quorum came from James DeW. Perry '63, after a motion to accept the report in toto without voting separately on each recommendation was defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Meet Tomorrow Following Lack of Quorum | 11/15/1960 | See Source »

Fuller's geodesic dome--a structure composed of a large number of five-sided figures--is viewed as a practical way to cover large areas without columns. The United States used the dome for its new DEW line Radomes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fuller, Nervi Candela to Deliver 1961-62 Norton Lecture Series | 11/15/1960 | See Source »

...continue to buy until early 1962, when he would have 200 missiles tied into the SAGE net in the industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Aiming While Arming | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...official representative of the Josiah Quincy family, Mark deW. Howe '28, professor of Law, said his grandfather really meant no more to him than to the audience, and he might just as well "talk about Adam...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Quincy Gets Master at Inaugural Dinner | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

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