Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Going to Jump!" Driving his Buick south on Avers Avenue, Salesman Elmer Barkhaus, 61, glanced at the school, saw smoke coming out of the back door. Before he could get out of the car, flames were shooting out of the school. At 2:42 he gave the first alarm. At 2:44 the first company of firemen got there, sirens screaming. The situation: a flash fire had started in the rear-basement stair well of the school's north wing, had been shut out of the first floor by fire-prevention doors, was now engulfing the second floor -fire...
...Adams saw two major obstacles to a College course in Christian culture. First, he doubted whether a unitary Christian heritage exists, since the dialogue of opposing viewpoints tends to give any heritage a complex character...
...Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother died in 1945, but his 95-year-old aunt still gets the pension...
...Pablo Picasso, who spent weeks sketching compositions based on the theme of an artist painting a model in a skylighted studio, had a sudden change of inspiration when he saw the huge mural panels alotted him. He switched to an enigmatic, allegorical beach scene that has proved to be one of UNESCO's major disappointments (see color pages). No help is the concrete catwalk that cuts across the delegates' lounge some 20 ft. in front of the mural, effectively slicing it in half when seen at a distance...
...saw first half, which ended with the score 20 to 20, neither side was able to muster an effective offense. Sophomore Bob Bowditch scored the first two Crimson points on a jump shot after Ken Ratzan had given Amherst the lead with three minutes gone...