Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bachelor of Laws degrees, magna cum laude, were received by Lawrence F. Ebb '39 and Harris K. Weston '40 both as of the class of 1943. Those winning cum laude awards were Garfield H. Horn '40, Robert A. McDowell, William P. Reiss, as of the class of 1943; and James A. Lake, class...
...heroine of Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...
...where numerous relatives of mine have written TIME, frantically yelping that they are cousins of Sam Marx of M-G-M [TIME, April 8]. The Marx fortunes have certainly sunk to a low ebb when members of the family find it necessary to rush into print to claim relationship to anyone...
...William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois University and coauthor of The Patient and the Weather, offered a medical reason for spring fever: "In northern regions, the low ebb of vitality is reached in March and April. Blood pressure is low, blood vessels are tired. Winter has left . . . the body's store of blood proteins, vitamins and the rare minerals...
...Guillermo Meza was one of the youngest and most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...