Word: two
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirkland booters ran up four wins against one loss and two ties to take third place. Jim Dwinell turned in an outstanding performance during the season as net-tender...
Duroselle's main fear for the infant Fifth Constitution was, in fact, the death of de Gaulle. The prime minister is so strong under the present governmental system, he said, that if the president was weaker than de Gaulle, there could be a conflict between the two executives...
When a delegation of Leningrad professors visited Cambridge last April, it was agreed that the two institutions would trade lists of personnel for exchange. President Pusey's letter in June contained the names of Leningrad faculty members whom the University wished to invite and also the names of Harvard scholars who wanted to do special research in Leningrad...
Long before his death in 1931. Poet Vachel Lindsay was out of date; chanting about the heartland seemed naive to readers caught by the puzzles of The Waste Land. In the age of Eliot. Lindsay was remembered chiefly as the eccentric and faintly embarrassing author of two throbbing poems, the boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major...
Booth Led Boldly. Vachel began in Jacksonville, Fla., provisioned with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical...