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...Strong, Bull Curwen, (brother of '42 stroke Bus), and Jud Gale are the newcomers to the Bolles fold and are sitting in slides numbered six, five, and three respectively. Frank Cunningham, erstwhile 150 pound ear, has been stroking the Varsity, while Paul Knaplund, as seven, Bob Stone at four, Stew Clark at two, and Mike Scully at bow fill out the rest of the boat, Knaplund and Scully are veterans of last years first boat. Stone and Clark returned from the wars after having been on the '42 Freshman eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Timers Quiet as Oars Keep Home Waters Churning | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Stew Meat. Once more, housewives were staring their butchers down, taking home stew meat instead of standing rib roasts. There was a sudden demand for buttons-for home sewing. The Sears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Late Spring | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually, such stewing had brought a general Senate tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Most of the twelve had found their own styles during the war years, when neutral Ireland was left to stew in its own juices. They shared a liking for landscape, and misty Irish light-like Patrick Hennessy's silvery, ruined Cathedrals (see cut). Their leader was veteran Impressionist Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home-Brew | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews his own medicines; the team swears by his skin-hardener and his cure for athlete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Firehouse Frank and His Boys | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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