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Word: penns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1966, the competition between the Harvard and Penn heavyweight crews has resembled a game of "king on the mountain." Each Spring a Quaker boat stronger than the previous year's has challenged the Crimson's hold on the national title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crew Will Fight For National Title Again | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

AUDUBON: A VISION by Robert Penn Warren. 32 pages. Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adam in the Wilderness | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

That was over 40 years ago. But the poet, Robert Penn Warren, now 64, a double Pulitzer winner for poetry (Promises) and prose (All the King's Men), is still a believer in the resurrected, the Westward and the fabulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adam in the Wilderness | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Robert Penn Warren makes the melodramatic most of a bird-beaked Kentucky-frontier mother and her two sons who in 1811 actually gave refuge to Audubon, then plotted to murder him for his gold watch. The three rogues are thwarted and promptly hanged. As they choke on their ropes-bunglers at death as at life-Warren's Audubon unsentimentally identifies with them. In the all-embracing fraternity of failure, Audubon in some sense shares their guilt and their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adam in the Wilderness | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Fritz Hobbs, starting at number two for Harvard, will leave the team before the Penn match. Hobbs, a member of last year's Olympic crew, will graduate in January. Barnaby is counting on the return of Bruce Weigand, presently away from school, next term to assist Harvard to its tenth Ivy title in 14 years...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Squash Team Encounters Cornell In First Ivy Contest Here Today | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

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