Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baylor's A. Joseph ("Dr. A.") Armstrong, 79, who at seven used to scribble on his school slate "A. Joseph Armstrong, prof, of Greek," eventually became a professor of English and the world's No. 1 collector of Browning. In term, white-haired Dr. A. used to rise at dawn each day for a five-mile prebreakfast hike, taught with explosive severity ("Son, you sound like you have a mouthful of mush"), worked with such ferocity that he left the rest of the campus panting ("I hope to die on Saturday," he would say, "so there...
Earl Warren, who did not do well with his primary forays in Wisconsin and Oregon, ran into trouble in his own state. He won the presidential-preference vote and California's 70 delegates, but he did not win handily; a slate with nothing to offer except opposition to Warren got more than half a million votes. The anti-Warren slate's in-name-only candidate for President was Representative Thomas H. Werdel of Bakersfield. His chief cry: Warren is not really a candidate for President, but wants to deal for a place in a national Republican administration...
...locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some wonderful valley, the Monongahela. There's more hell popping and more loud noise in any ten miles at the lower...
Athletic wise the class of '27 fared well until they met Yale, Demoralized by the previous week's defeat from the Tiger yearlings which soiled their otherwise clean slate, the freshman football team lost to Yale, 59 to 0. Stars Captain Leo F. Daley, Isadore Zarakov, and Al Miller were sidelined by injuries, however. Undefeated Yale also tripped the freshman football team, 2 to 1, on a last-minute goal. Captain Walter Ghorardi led the team to four wins, one tie, and two defeats. The Eli cross-country team showed their heels to Captain Sweede's men by a score...
Ireland is very much in Painter Yeats's mind, and he takes his subjects from Ireland's mythology, her countryside and cluttered city streets. His colors come from the purple-brown of Irish bogs, the emeralds and slate greys of Irish seas, the blues of the hills and heather. "An artist may travel the world and paint every imaginable scene," he said once, "but he will never succeed in painting a masterpiece until he takes it out of his own country, out of the place where he was born & bred, the place that is in his blood...