Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years since the Gar rick Gaieties, Rodgers & Hart have livened Manhattan with such hits as Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann, The Girl Friend, A Connecticut Yankee, and the five-in-a-row of the last three years. They have livened the whole U. S. with such songs as My Heart Stood Still, Ten Cents a Dance, Blue Moon, I've Got Five Dollars, There's a Small Hotel, With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers' favorite composition), The Lady Is a Tramp. In the 13 years, their shows have played everywhere from Wales to New South Wales...
...Amateur golf championship, played last week at Oakmont, outside Pittsburgh, most persistent arguments centred around: 1) Defending Champion Johnny Goodman and whether he could win the Amateur for the second year in a row; 2) Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women...
...semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads. As a sentence is read, each part of speech jumps, like popping corn. A pupil who fails to pop at the right time goes to stand on the sidelines with...
...founded by a vote of the General Court in the fall of 1636; but owing to an Indian war and a female agitator the actual opening was delayed almost two years. Early in 1638 the Board of Overseers purchased for the College a house and yard in "Cow-yard Row", where the natives of the "Newetown" parked their cattle at night. When the name of Newetown was changed to Cambridge, the citizens were so pleased that they granted the College a slice of the "Ox Pasture" that included the sites of Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls...
...striplings they attended exclusive Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, rowed on its crews, matriculated at Harvard, rowed some more, worked on the Crimson (college daily), and survived the intellectual rigors of Harvard Law School. Both still live in Cambridge, still row singles shells for fun on the Charles River. Good-looking in a well-scrubbed, boyish way, they are great friends...