Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boat he will send down the Charles against Princeton has been together most of the spring, with only a couple of shifts. Steve Ells, powerful ex-Belmont Hill oarsman, switched from port to starboard after a month on the water. He's now in seven spot, behind captain and stroke Ed Mathews. One of three on the crew from the West Coast, Mathews had never rowed, much less stroked, before coming to Harvard...
Only changes in the Harvard lineup since Columbia were made Monday when Coach Reynolds moved Bill Coughlin from the J.V. beat to six spot in the varsity eight, replacing Jim Barrett. Frank May-bank switched with Dan Raykov, taking over his port four...
Seven times in 300 years the German river port of Kehl on the Rhine has fallen into French hands, an incidental prize in the long series of wars between Germans and French. Last week, for the seventh time, the French handed Kehl back to the Germans...
...were sitting, port and cigar at hand, in the common room of some distant planet populated by Oxford dons, Professor Arnold Toynbee looks down on the world and its worries with the Long View of history. Man, says Toynbee, with a Balliol-bred benignity of wit and grace of phrasing, is but a scurrying creature on a cosmic anthill who may be, but is not necessarily, doomed. It all depends on how the scurriers respond to challenge...
...penetrate faster and further than its religious strand ..." Since the World has turned Western technology on its creators and has reject ed Western faith, while the West itself has lost its Christianity, is there any hope? Of course, answers Toynbee in the voice of a man warming his port before the common-room fireplace: look at the Greeks and the Romans. "After [they] had conquered the world by force of arms, the world took its conquerors captive by converting them to new religions which ad dressed their message to all human souls." Is the World going to teach the West...