Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
...breeze was blowing in a little stronger now, damp from the water under the Anderson Bridge. "Time for birds on the wing and crew men on the slides," he remembered. And gesturing to the waitress for two more bottles and a couple of hot pastromis, he made a mental note to get his seersuckers out of the moth balls before the end of the week...
Kiphuth's lads were the dominant element of a two-day water fest, proving hardly a gracious host to the many visiting aggregations. In the Friday night finals they took first and second in the 50-yard freestyle and the 150-yard back-stroke, and the first four notches in the 220-yard freestyle...
...banks to spend on the venture. (Jersey Standard and Socony will guarantee $102,000,000 of the loans, all three companies will share the rest.) Aramco will build a 1,000-mile pipeline from the blistering oil-rich city of Dammam to the Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels a day to 500,000, replenishing the depleted treasury of Ibn Saud by 23? for every barrel...
...wife, Edith, whom he married while she was a physical-education teacher in Shreveport, La., and their two children, Catherine, 17, and Eugene Jr., 14, go to their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that he has shot. He cares so little for night life that he hasn't been in a Manhattan nightclub for two years, says: "I'm the kind of fellow who needs eight hours sleep a night...