Word: hovey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor took over the National Geographic in 1899, he likes to recall, the circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
Interceptions foiled Winthrop's aerial attack in the second and third periods. In the fourth quarter, a Davenport interception paved the way to its second touchdown. Taking over on their own 30, Davenport scored on a fancy reverse followed by a pass from Bob Massey to Tony Hovey, who outraced two defenders to the goal line...
...such a claim could never have been made. The Gregorys tell with sympathetic amusement of the doings of highflown and boyish spirits like Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, singers of "the open road," and the feeble graces of others like Thomas Bailey Aldrich. But they recognize the "serenity, grace and lightness" of George Santayana's best verse, and properly value the authentic American nostalgia expressed by James Whitcomb Riley...
...Scott W. Hovey...
Charles P. Hovey...