Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor of Law, interrupted. Quite off-handedly, he suggested that the student could use the current mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, as an equally good example of a dishonest politician. Seavey did not know as he said this that Mayor Curley's son was sitting in the front row of the class...
Principal new attraction at the old boathouse is a fibre-glass shell, which many can see but few can row...
...Singapore, famed Author-Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) Yutang resigned his post as chancellor of newborn Nanyang University (TIME, Aug. 16). Ostensibly, the row was over the school's first budget and operating policies. But behind the scenes, Nanyang, set up primarily to win Oriental minds for the West, was an ideological morass, a battleground where the Communists had already opened a rabbit-punch struggle to capture minds for their own cause. In despair and frustration. Dr. Lin, more a scholar than a dynamic educator, capitulated...
...Unbothered, although he was carrying one pound more than his assigned 114, Paul Andolino's unbeaten dark bay colt Boston Doge started his spring campaign by winning his ninth race in a row, Jamaica's Experimental Handicap...
...Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish starts rotting at its head." Bevan accused the trade union bosses, who contribute most to Labor's treasury, of ordering his expulsion. Pudgy finger pointing at member after member, he ranged along the row of the shadow cabinet: "There are the conspirators . . . Those who hold the moneybags demand my expulsion. They have given the orders. They await the decision...