Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burden in upholding the local honor. The Bellboy swimmers play host to Pierson College, Yale champions, in the Indoor Athletic Building at 3 o'clock today. Lowell has left all competitors in its wake up to now, downing every House for an undefeated season, and will be out to drown the Building and make it eight straight...
...JRDB is to eliminate unhealthy research competition among the services, avoid waste effort. But it can also discourage "weaponeering" in favor of basic work which may prove valuable in peace as well as in war. Scientists could hope that the Board, with Bush at its head, would not drown in military money the free spirit of U.S. science...
...this makes good reading, and, for the student of American society, provocative reading. When a history professor writes a short, humorous, learned and charming paper, hosannahs should surely drown out stuffy criticism. But Mr. Schlesinger has opened too many doors without searching the rooms: what of the dominance of the American woman in setting the etiquette pace and incidentally inhibiting much vigorous thinking through the centuries? What of the effect on a nation of having an etiquette before it has an ethic? Are not manners surface characteristics rather than molders of men and nations, interesting as they are accepted...
Massachusetts Maritime Academy brought a band and at least 1000 leather-lunged supporters to meet the Jayvees Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, but the noise couldn't drown out the strains of Crimson victory in the nearby stadium, or the 39-0 triumph closer to hand. Someone doubtless forgot to pack the team with the instruments...
...Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian in its classical simplicity, Wagnerian in the way it jumps from recitative to aria without stopping the action of the story. The scenes are bound together by biting symphonic interludes...