Word: peres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Army enabled the team to go late a brief, but pleasant, first place tie with Yale in the Ivy League standings. Ivy LEAGUE STANDINGS As of Feb. 16. 1952 W L T Pere Harvard 4 0 0 1.000 Yale 4 0 0 1.00 Dartmouth 3 1 0 .750 Princeton 2 1 0 .666 Army 2 3 0 .400 Navy 1 4 0 .300 Penn 0 3 1 .000 Columbia...
...hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns to help arm the hundred local militiamen...
...Royal Favor. Franck was born a Belgian. Like Mozart, he was the victim of a pushing father who insisted that the "exceptional boy" bring fame & fortune to the family by becoming a virtuoso pianist. When young Cesar began to teach, Franck pere drew up a table showing the exact time it should take Cesar to get from pupil to pupil, then back home again to his practice. When the young man insisted on composing as well as performing, father Franck brashly had Cesar dedicate his first published music to King Leopold I, hoping for Belgian royal favor. None came...