Word: shays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden seeds was poor, Shakers gained a virtual monopoly of the seed business by the purity and vitality of their seeds...
Sidney Bechet (pronounced Be-shay), who looks like a sleepy Pullman porter, has been talking through a clarinet for more than 40 years. Last week, in a smoky joint called Jimmy Ryan's on Manhattan's brassy 52nd Street, Sidney was proving again that he is the best Dixieland two-beat jazzman anywhere on clarinet or soprano saxophone (which looks like an oversize clarinet...
Yale Freshmen: McAlee, r.e., Geib, r.f., Johnson, r.g., Lovejoy, c., Bishop, l.g., Cirillo, l.t., Shay, l.e., Davis, q.b., Calhous, r.h.b, Phelps...
...iron man in every Yardling contest this fall, and a man some grand-stand quarterbacks feel is slated for first string Varsity next year. Dick Harlow has sucucumbed to the L only because he has no passing quarterback available for the favored T formation. HARVARD YALE Leavitt (179) lo Shay (185) Bradlee (192) lt Cirilio (220) Guldera (187) lg Bishop (190) Ward (170) o Lovejoy (210) Hickey (184) rg Johnson (178) Reed (204) rt Golb (200) Forsyth (200) ro McAfee (180) Kenary (180) qb Davis (145) Cramton (179) lhb Belew (164) Crafts (168) rhb Calhoun (170) Moffle (163) fb Phelps...
...Ohio, colorless, cautious Senator James W. Huffman, backed by popular Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-shay), easily swept to victory over ex-Representative Stephen Young and P.A.C.-backed Marvin C. Harrison in the Democratic primary. His November opponent: "Honest John" Bricker, darling of G.O.P. conservatives, unchallenged in his own primary...