Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this time, the H.A.A. should have made a more effectual attempt to find a permanent coach. Although Joe Brown was an exception, very few graduate students are qualified as crew coaches, and willing to stay on the water until 7:30 p.m. each day for the salary of a part-time teaching fellow...
Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
...toughest years since the icebox became a refrigerator, the appliance industry is making a strong comeback. The turnabout started in June, and in the last several weeks all burners have been on. Last week the National Electrical Manufacturers Association reported that August sales of refrigerators, freezers, water heaters and food disposers topped August a year ago. In Chicago, August sales of air conditioners were up 45%, freezers 54%, electric ranges...
ATOM-POWER LEAD in race to supply world market with reactors has gone to General Electric Co. In key competition, with seven atom experts called by World Bank to help judge, G.E. won contract to build 150,000-kw. boiling-water-type reactor for Italian government near Naples. G.E. will also build West Germany's first power reactor...
...Douglas Haig, British commander in chief during World War I, mud is the villain of this excellent book. It deals mostly with the British campaign around Ypres ("Wipers" to the troops) in 1917, when British soldiers learned on Belgian soil the dread military truth uttered by Napoleon: "God-besides water, air, earth and fire-has created a fifth element...