Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe. It is almost as if the Greek fellow were declining the Dover sole as guest of the author at Trinity High Table...
Middlesex-born Vicar Strong first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
...Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London's midtown Marble Arch and Paris' midtown Arc de Triomphe, and with...
...last game before the Yale contest, the varsity lacrosse team will face the University of New Hampshire at Dover this afternoon. The game should provide the Crimson with a chance to recover from Saturday's loss to Dartmouth...
With support from the freshmen, the largest group in the HYRC, Charles W. Long '62, of Pennypacker Hall and Dover, easily defeated the administration candidate, Bruce P. Shields...