Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard junior varsity maintained its three-year undefeated record with a 5-2 win, and Solomon Gomez and Peter Bogovich tallied three goals apiece in the freshmen's 8-1 rout of the Bullpups...
When his ship Valkyrien foundered on the coast of Scotland in 1883, Danish Captain Peter Maersk MØller thought he saw a seven-pointed star in the sky. Even in that moment of disaster, MØller, an optimist if ever there was one, decided that he had witnessed an omen of good fortune. Apparently he was right: today the family flag, a seven-pointed white star on a light blue field, is known the world over. It flies on 92 freighters, tankers and other vessels of the Maersk Line, over a shipyard and machinery and petrochemical plants, even...
...stargazer's son, Arnold Peter MØller, founded the firm, and it is named after him. A. P. MØller made the most of his small stake, and in 1904 he was able to buy a secondhand steamer. He parlayed that one vessel into what is now a multimilliondollar empire. A believer in running a tight ship, A. P. MØller was one of Denmark's richest men when he died in 1965 at the age of 88. He passed the helm of the company to his son, Maersk McKinney* MØller...
...VALE OF LAUGHTER by Peter De Vries. 352 pages. Little, Brown...
...universe, Novelist Peter De Vries once said, is a safe with the combination locked inside, and he always plays a numbers game, hoping to open it up and get at the inner meaning. It is just as well that the operative click never comes, because when it does, De Vries will stop being desperately funny and become plain desperate. The thing to remember as the puns cascade down the pages is that his characters (and he, too) would rather keep their earthly uncertainties than lose the capacity to keep trying for something better...