Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council appointed Richard W. Kimball '50 of North Andover and Eliot House to their ranks yesterday, Kimball was picked for his "outstanding ability, special skills, and particular knowledge complementary to the functions of the Council...
...group has asked all undergraduates to telegraph Speaker Joseph W. Martin and House Majority Leader Charles W. Halleck '07 from the House and Union booths, requesting their support behind the measure...
...brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground. While the calf still kicked in a cloud of dust, the vaqueros knelt down, swiftly branded it with the King Ranch's "running W," inoculated it against disease (blackleg), castrated it. Even as the calf scrambled to its feet, bawling with fear and pain, the lariat of Bob Kleberg or a vaquero had already tripped another calf to be branded...
Died. Thomas W. Warner, 73, founder (in the early 1900s) of a small Indiana firm manufacturing auto parts, which grew along with the infant auto industry, merged in 1928 with three others to form what is now the Borg-Warner Corp., giant Midwest makers of everything from harrow discs to washing machines; in Pasadena, Calif...
...poet who perhaps came closest to succeeding was 68-year-old Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance man, in his latest book, Transport to Summer. W. H. Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...