Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt about it; Dartmouth is becoming ski-conscious. Everyone in New England is more or less familiar with the old story of the Dartmouth Outing Club. It has been often told how through the efforts of this group the Dartmouth undergraduate was persuaded to leave the warm stove about which he had formerly clung from December until April and to take advantage of skiing conditions that few other colleges enjoy. Then came the development of the unique Winter Carnival and the formation of a winter sports team, and Dartmouth became known as an "outdoor college...
Mobsmen drove the police first from Sir Ronald's garage, poured gasoline on the six Government cars, burnt them with yells of triumph and great stench of rubber & paint. Next they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...
...something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There were few such pictures for sale at the Folk Art Gallery. Instead there was a wide variety of cigar store Indians, wooden decoy ducks,* hobby horses, cast iron hitching posts, cast iron stove plates, weather vanes and examples of tatting and painting on velvetEN...
...bloodhounds, rounded up 60 thoroughly terrified Negroes who had been at the meeting, jailed 32 on charges of attempted murder and assault, criminal conspiracy, and carrying concealed weapons. The four wounded fugitives had vanished. Camp Hill's police chief cryptically remarked: ''They went out to chop stove wood and haven't returned...
Culver Academy's reiterated aim is one that many an older school regards as supererogatory: to train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand...