Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Row. Sympathy was the right prescription for Big Bill. He began pitching brilliantly. He won the last six games he pitched for the Braves last year, and the first four this year. When Giant fans boo him now, he feels like thumbing his nose, but pretends dignified indifference...
Literary Material. It was on Más-a-Tierra (Landward), largest (58 square miles) of the Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
Whacky. On its new children's page, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker gave its young readers directions for making "a New Look beanie" from daddy's old felt hat. "With a row of Wallace buttons around the beanie," it exclaimed, "you'll be the best-dressed kid in school . . . Anything goes on a beanie, and the whackier the better...
University officials held their breaths for the 27th year in a row this week, as they thought about the weather and Commencement Day--two items that have to fit together nicely...
Shoving off from the Newell float (above) before the recent Eastern Sprint Regatta are the eight men who will probably row against the Blue over the four-mile course at New London on June...