Word: fisher
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Britain's Defense Minister Lord Alexander was lolling on a front bench reserved for, but seldom occupied by, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who ranks as the first peer of England next to the royal family. There was a sudden stir: Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, was entering the House of Lords...
...atheism on which Communism is based . . . By that inevitable influence, he blurs the Christian witness against atheism, and shocks those who know the suffering and persecutions which Christians have had to bear at the hands of Communists." What then could be done about him? "The church," said Dr. Fisher, "has no power to proceed against the Dean. If he is guilty of unreason and delusion to a remarkable degree, these faults do not, short of certifiable lunacy, expose anyone to legal consequences...
...fisherman was not having his leg pulled, as he huffily assumed. Gavin Maxwell, the young man in the sweater, was not a fisher of trout but of basking sharks-creatures "as large as a London bus," that roam the bays and lochs of western Scotland. Harpoon Venture, Maxwell's account of four years of shark-shooting, is a natural for vacation reading. But it also has a secondary theme that many people will find more interesting than the main...
...performance in downing Dartmouth and Cornell. Wrestler Henry R. Wood--now in the 158 pound class--starred for the mat squad, as did Herbert Rawlins, Jr. for the squash team. The latter went on the win the University championship. And all athletes were happy when the College announced that Fisher would continue as head football coach...
...President Lowell's innovations were contagious, the football team, with its new fisher-Daley stratagems, bared its muscles and thrashed hapless Middlebury College by 68 to 0 for the largest Harvard score since 1891. Undergraduate jubiliation, however, slowly died and turned to dismay as Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Princeton drubbed the Crimson on successive weekends. In the gloom overemphasis in college football. Mother Advocate, sensing crusade in the making, trudged a few yards up Plympton Street to borrow the cudgel. "Football" she said in her October issue, "may actually become professional...