Word: lea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woman in Love (Barbara Lea; Riverside LP). Eight songs about the tender passion, sung in a jazz environment. Songstress Lea, whose voice is half sweet, half smoky, sings with the wistful perceptiveness of a young Lee Wiley...
...reason may be that Kirkland is in the throes of change. There is a new master--Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History; the Junior common room is about to be soundproofed and renovated; and the University has at long last decided to improve the appearance of the courtyard--shrubs, flower beds, and a Riviera-like sun terrace are contemplated...
Every weekend, rain or shine, whenever the ground is not frozen. Commercial Artist Bertram Wymer, 65, his wife Lea and their son John tramp across a deserted gravel pit at Swanscombe on the down-Thames outskirts of London. They walk with their heads down, eying every pebble. At the far end of the pit they enter a wire-fenced enclosure and start digging cautiously with garden trowels. They have been digging diligently ever since the end of the war, and recently they made the first finds of a peculiar treasure they have long sought...
Home Fires. The Wymer family kept on digging, now modestly backed by the British Museum of Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural...
Kirkland House's Master, Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History, gave his support to the experiment, and said, "Of course this is an experiment, and obviously a great deal will depend on the response of the students. We're very hopeful about it, however...