Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Discreetly of Course." He played often in England, where he has long been a leader in the unimpressive field of British pianists, but it really took World War II to bring Solomon out. When he was not touring for the troops, he worked as an air-raid warden in his district of Kensington, fighting fires, digging out bomb victims, pausing only after the night's work to look at his hands...
...English scholar is Warden of Wadham College and a professor of Poetry at Oxford University. He is speaking here this year under the auspices of a fund established by Charles C. Stillman...
Johnny Goldsmith of Lowell was top scorer of the game with 18 points, and along with Walt Coulson, was responsible for the victor's tight defense. Wally Baker and Dave Warden stood out on the Dunster squad...
Arthur Tyndall ("a slender man in a brown jacket and grey trousers") had to admit that he was a little disappointed with the University of Toronto. It seemed to have no real character. Was it nothing but a "facts factory"? Tyndall, who had come to Toronto to be warden of Hart House, wrote to a friend back in New Zealand: "I can't seem to make up my mind about this place. It [presents] a nice intellectual problem...
Last week, hundreds of U.S. and Canadian readers were following the intellectual problem of fictional Arthur Tyndall; as he learned more about Toronto University, they learned too. Warden Tyndall was the hero of a new novel by a front-ranking Canadian novelist and short-story writer, 45-year-old Morley Callaghan (They Shall Inherit the Earth, Such Is My Beloved). Actually, Tyndall's purpose (and Callaghan's) was to do more than unravel the character of Toronto: it was to raise money...