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...penguin out of cardboard or foam board and duct tape a dowel to the back. It’s like making a penguin sign...

Author: By Margaret E. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Penguins, Power, Mysterious Plans: The Intense World of Tim Hwang | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...point during the parade, an O’Brien protestor stepped into the street, snatched a Romney sign from someone in one of the buses, and snapped the wooden dowel attached to it in half...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Demonstrators Crowd Gubernatorial Debate | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

...exchanged echoing dialogue with a warbling Saffer. The cellos, too, seemed not to be standard, modern cellos, but rather like those of Handel's time, having a much thinner, more delicate sound. Most of the strings played their instruments in the baroque style, holding their bows partway up the dowel instead of by the frog, as is the modern method...

Author: By Anriane N. Giebel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Sweet Treat for the Eyes and Ears, Blissful Baroque Comes to Boston | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...Holzer's view, the best accommodations are often the least costly. She speaks from experience. Her daughter Margaret, 29, is a quadriplegic who makes her living selling reservations for a large hotel chain. All Margaret needs to perform her job is an inexpensive wooden dowel, which she uses to tap the computer keyboard. "That," says Holzer, "is not putting an undue burden on anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBLE AIMS, MIXED RESULTS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a prosperous conservative publisher of newspapers in Arizona and Indiana. Gore's father, Al Gore Sr., is a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee whose opposition to the war in Vietnam helped defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quayle vs. Gore | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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