Word: owens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcker pinch hit for Owen Brewster, Republican Senator from Maine, who was kept from his scheduled speech at the Forum by the Senate filibuster debate. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, served as moderator...
Norman Thomas, Representative John F. Kennedy '40, and Senator Owen Brewster will be the speakers while Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, will moderate...
...changed the hutukhtu's mind and brought him to Baltimore was Owen Lattimore, director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Asia Specialist Lattimore had met him once in China, and had been corresponding with him ever since...
...long seemed to be all right-even profitable-to use much gamier words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...first dam to be built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...