Word: prow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bonfires and of lanterns held high by hollow-eyed Hindu functionaries gave the scene an exotic glow. Tongues of humanity darted back and forth across the road in front of the moving wheels, as helpless police tried to clear the path. The procession cut through them slowly, like the prow of a ship, and the crowd rolled back again like the stubborn seas...
Meanwhile, keeping an agreement with the French government, Writer-Producer-Director Stone had removed the name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...
...laughing stage. Depression or no, the college years were, for the Class of 1934, truly the halcyon days compared with what lay before. As White put it, "So sails the Ship of 1934 into the Sea of Life. We have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over thy prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener." The bottle-smashing was over, and as President Conant handed out the 655 first diplomas of his career, the Class could well ponder the uncertain seas ahead.DEAN LEIGHTON...
...Massachusetts Investment Trust the prudent man is Chairman Dwight Parker Robinson, 59, a prow-chinned, rock-ribbed New Englander whose family roots go far back into Massachusetts history. Tall (5 ft. 11½ in.) and lean, he guides the $1.5 billion investment of M.I.T.'s 203,000 shareholders (plus the $219 million of 67,000 investors in M.I.T.'s Growth Stock Fund) with such calm and confidence that he sleeps as soundly as he invests. As the boss of the world's biggest fund, he is the first to admit that there are no exact rules...
...hours later, as a seagoing tug moved in to tow the crippled tanker to port, Santa Rosa, with Valchem's toppled stack perched on her prow, steamed for New York. Before she docked at 8:15 p.m., dozens of grateful passengers had signed a testimonial praising Santa Rosa's crew...