Word: kente
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...Kent is known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England...
...Sikes, a brainy, mighty-shouldered little man on crutches, coxswain of the 1916 Princeton varsity. Many a Princeton man will tell you Gordon Sikes is a better judge of rowing than Head Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg. Coach Sikes took his 150-pounders to the Henley this year. They met Kent in the quarterfinal...
...world's most famed plastic surgery hospital, Queens Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, Kent, England, ceased functioning last autumn. From its open-ing in 1917 it handled 19,000 cases. Its most skilled staff member, Dr. Harold Delf Gillies, sometimes performed 30 separate operations on a single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland...
Campbell Soup, Thermos Bottle. Atwater Kent Radio and American Tobacco curtseyed twice last week to George V and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace...
President John Thompson Dorrance (soup) sent to be presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...