Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight lengths ahead of Norwegian Carl Fronsdal, said: "I've waited for this day for years...
...Hope radio show, she had caught the easy-to-catch but hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed...
Those for whom the unexpected is what makes life stimulating must find the gyrations of the present Congress almost insupportably exciting. The House, for example, after its flood of rhetoric about our obligation to shore up the world's economy through Truman doctrine expenditures, has calmly added to the wool bill an amendment which could very possibly ruin the wool industries of several nations. President Truman's message in vetoing the bill is therefore a minimum statement of sanity on the wool question...
Spread along the eastern Thames shore about four miles above New London and about a mile below Gales Ferry, Yale's headquarters, Red Top stands on a wooded slope in solitude, characterized by a leisurely, narrow, rock-strewn path from the dormitory and dining hall through the foliage to the boathouse...
...last week, swarms of Crimson well-wishers have to be fought off by gatemen. Only parents of the crew and various official personages are admitted. Occasionally, however, the solitude of the Boathouse was broken early last Wednesday afternoon by the arrival of dinghies from the yachts off shore, looking for more beer...