Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver up to 350%. In San Francisco, an old-age pensioner sharing a single room had his rent boosted from $25 to $40 a month. In Chicago, a third-rate hotel jumped rooms from $7 a week to $17.50. Even the flophouses along Detroit's grimy Skid Row upped dormitory beds from 30? a night...
...change at the frontier was electric. Just at the border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
...barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All I want is lots and lots of water to drink and to have a frightful fuss made over me." Noel Coward, 47, was taking his first serious crack at radio...
Three days earlier, two crews who habitually snub Poughkeepsie had their own closed-shop regatta on Connecticut's Thames River. The victor, for the ninth time in a row: Harvard over Yale, by a boat length and a half...
Varsity crew and baseball teams have still to reach a season climax, with the nine scheduled to meet Yale again tomorrow at New Haven, and the Varsity eight ready to row it our--over a four-mile course--with the Elis on the Thames Wednesday. The 150-pound Varsity boat has already finished its second straight year undefeated...