Word: mowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...
...Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...
...exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
...this point, however, Brigham's rejuvenation occurred. His control troubles vanished and he began to mow the Bruins down in seemingly invincible fashion. He relied heavily on his fast-ball, using his curve only occasionally, when ahead of the opposing batters...
...Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...