Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...
...Communists feel? Mijnheer van der Meulen was regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...
...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...
...much of his material and learned life in the wilderness and among the Indians at first hand, his health gave way. He overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Ringe (D), 3-2; Hugh Foster (H), defeated Stahl (D), 3-2; Clark (H) defeated Kurr(D), 3-1; McKittrick (H), defeated McGean (D), 3-0; Ames (H) defeated Feldberg (D), 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Van Raalter (D), 3-0; Cameron (D) defeated Fischelis (H), 3-2; Loncope (H) defeated Irving (D), 3-1; Cabot (H) defeated Keese...