Word: stout
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...teams at another venue, so they took the top teams from each [on the second day],” junior Elyse Dolbec said. “It was like a championship bracket.”It was Harvard’s quick start that helped the team to the stout finish.“The first day went very well—we were undefeated,” Dolbec said. “This is our first real big regatta with the team, and I was really happy with the way everyone worked together.”Dolbec served...
...with flowers and cards from well wishers, and his colleagues lost track of the number of people who signed Miyamoto's condolence book. While Miyamoto was still in the hospital, students at a nearby elementary school delivered hundreds of folded cranes, a traditional get-well gift. "He was a stout man with caring eyes," remembers a tearful 73-year-old Yoshie Ikeda. "He always called out to me, saying 'Take care!'" Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Miyamoto's police station on the night of Feb. 12 to attend a viewing of the officer's body and pay his respects...
...began by injecting life into one of its oldest brands. Founded in Singapore in 1931 by German brewers Beck's, the Archipelago Brewery was considered an enemy asset and seized by the British during World War II. In the postwar years, its output shrank to just one product, ABC Stout. Teo's epiphany came about while staring at the word Archipelago on an ABC Stout label during a promotional event. "I thought, what a great name: Archipelago somehow resonated with spices and islands ... What if we make a spiced beer with indigenous local spices?" She further reckoned that Singaporeans-often...
...John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789, and Samuel Eliot Morison, Class of 1908, notes of the transition that “Tiberius succeeded Augustus.” Quincy got things done, but he was not loved, and one of the few artifacts of his presidency that remains is his stout walking stick with which he was known to thrash errant undergraduates...
...close died suddenly in June, and his wife's aunt passed away later in the summer. On a less personal level, the expectations of a sun-splashed, championship-starved San Diego-- the Chargers have never won a Super Bowl, the Padres a World Series--fall squarely on Tomlinson's stout shoulders...