Word: severn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America and rescuing inner-city kids. But you find yourself silently cheering when he trots his team out to a Sunday match in the San Fernando Valley against the Mayflower Club, a team of British expatriates with names like Winston and Trevor. "Thoroughly sporting group of lads," observes Clifford Severn, 74, who has been playing cricket since 1933 and is by far the oldest member of the Mayflower Club. Trevor Roper, 47, captain of the Mayflower Club, says he and his British mates "weren't used to all the cheering" and high-five gyrations coming from the newest team...
There you are--hand on the throttle of a full-size, 100-ton steam engine hauling eight graceful coaches from Worcestershire to Shropshire on a track that follows the Severn River as it meanders through unspoiled English countryside. No need for a time machine to fulfill this dream. Adults healthy enough to shovel piles of coal need only register at the Severn Valley Railway school, based in Bewdley, Worcestershire. In the introductory session, they learn safety guidelines and how a locomotive works. They also put in time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing...
Braxton herself is an intriguing mix of strength and vulnerability, of pop-star outgoingness and old-school reserve. The oldest of six kids, Braxton grew up in the small town of Severn, Maryland, where, she says, her father was a minister in search of a religion: "We went through everything, from being Jehovah's Witnesses to being United Methodists," she recalls...
Harvard lightweight crew fared significantly better than its older, heavier counterpart. The Crimson overran a surprisingly fast Navy crew for its 29th Haines Cup on the Severn River in Annapolis Maryland...
Things kept hopping for the editorial interns as well. In his first week as a reporter-researcher, Amherst's Bryant Rousseau called a factory near Prague to get some weapon prices and tracked a British arms expert to his home in Upton-upon-Severn. Ronald Amstutz, a photography major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was made responsible for illustrating the World Notes page and spent much of the summer scrambling to gather pictures from around the globe. One of his final duties: assigning a photographer, picking a site and getting his fellow interns to Brooklyn for the picture that...