Word: vaux
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Embree wasn't the only Harvard thinclad to place in Saturday's sundrenched classic. "Super Foot" John McCulloh, Harvard track's answer to Jim Rice, placed third in the college division of the high jump behind Allen of Columbia and Vaux of Maryland with a height...
Waste Space. Except, fortunately, in Central Park: there, Olmsted and Vaux had a free hand. They won it with great difficulty against a phalanx of businessmen and politicos who could see no point in creating such "waste space" in Manhattan. Olmsted's tenacity was such that when his thigh was broken in three places by a carriage accident, he insisted on being carried round the park in a litter while he issued his orders to the foremen and struggled to complete, in grass and trees, his "gallery of mental pictures." Though he disapproved of such grand formal gardens...
...Park went to one Winston Buzby in 1898, and the present infestation of buildings and ugly monuments was no part of Olmsted's plan. Today, the character of Central Park is stretched to its elastic limit. But it still survives, and Olmsted's words to his partner Vaux (who got dispirited sometimes) still speak for many New Yorkers: "I have none of your feelings of nauseousness about the park. There is no other place in the world that is as much home to me. I love it all through, and all the more for the trials...
Died. Roland de Vaux, 67, the French Dominican priest and biblical scholar who was one of those who penetrated the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. Two years after a Bedouin shepherd stumbled onto a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, De Vaux was among a party of archaeologists who journeyed to the spot. There they uncovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. The 2,000-year-old documents, pieced together and edited by an international team of scholars headed by De Vaux, turned...
There the name was on the list of Cambridge University graduates, sandwiched between Vaux, J.E.G., and Walker, J.N.G.: Wales, H.R.H. Prince of -the first heir to the British crown ever to earn a university degree. No one seemed one whit prouder than Lord Butler, master of Trinity College, where the royal scholar won a bachelor's degree with honors in history. "We think it was rather remarkable that he could get a good degree," said Lord Butler, "considering all his other duties...