Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
...call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in workers' "reach-me-downs" burst in. They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said to have shuddered like a giant oak on finding that one of the bums was an official...
...were glad to learn Miss Sitwell is capable of roaring on to a battlefield and hissing by post. Such vocal athletics no doubt enhance the status of a poetess who has progressed beyond the White Cliffs of Dover to the point where she writes of the "pink cheeks of young country girls in unintelligible floral arrays...
...passages. At three he was preaching over the back of a chair to his parents on Sunday afternoons. He always had "a good loud voice," and he thinks his voice got him his first pulpit. In his first year at Newton Theological Institution, Baptist Potter astonished the congregation at Dover, N.H. by preaching right through the racket of a Boston & Maine train passing by just outside. Promptly they extended him a call-provided he would get ordained and married. He obliged, and took over his first parish...
Sixteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa last night. They are Hugh Amory, of Dover and Kirkland, English; Richard J. Barnet 1L, of Brookline and Eliot, Slavic languages; Leo Bersani, of Katonah, N.Y. and Leverett, Romance languages; Donald L. Blackmer, of Andover and Lowell. History and Literature; Gaynor F. Bradish, of Schenectady, N.Y. and Dunster, English; and Melvin W. Brown, of Conotton. Ohio and Lowell, Chemistry...