Word: scape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...
...Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil's Candido Portinari, and Loren MacIver, Walter Stuempfig and Robert Vickrey of the U.S. "This," said Jurist Goodrich, "is the best competition Hallmark has held...
This small and utterly unique school, located on the outskirts of Princeton, New Jersey, resembles more closely a clubhouse or perhaps a country school than it does the most high-level institution of learning in the world. In this respect, it blends very well into the general land scape of the area which is, of course, dominated by that vast, educational country club, Princeton University...
...Commencement display of the work done by students at the Graduate School of Design will be open at Robinson Hall daily from 9 to 5. It includes models and drawing by students in the Departments of Architecture, City Planning, and Land-scape Architecture...
...winning side, the varsity's favorite schedule scape-goats have been the little three Maine colleges (Bates, Bowdoin and Maine.) These together have provided the Crimson with 51 victories without a loss. Williams, who has never beaten the University in 30 tries, has been another losing favorite, scoring a total of 24 points in all of ils matches with the Crimson...