Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barrage of Quality Hill, seemed tired by the two-day competition and stood before Judge Godsol with forefoot splayed. No one could look at the imported English Pekingese, Ch. Chik I'Sun of Caversham, and not remember that last year's winner was the toy poodle Ch. Wilber White Swan; for a toy to win twice in a row was unlikely. The cocky Airedale, Westhay Fiona of Harham, stumbled and broke gait. The Dalmatian, Ch. Roadcoach Roadster, defied show-ring manners with the curving droop of its tail. But through all the long interlude, the long-haired, silver...
...sundown, after a daylong display of its skills, the newly formed division fell in on the Fort Campbell, Ky. parade ground. There last week it watched its commander, Bastogne Veteran Major General Thomas L. Sherburne Jr., receive from Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker and Army Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor the blue-and-red standards of the famous "Screaming Eagles"-the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. In front of the reviewing stand perched a bald eagle, hastily acquired from a South Carolina zoo. Unused to the rocket blast and the plane roar, it had battered itself against...
Lewis Mumford, currently Jacob Zyskind Visiting Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University, will deliver the Radcliffe Commencement address June 13, President Wilber K. Jordan announced yesterday. Julius S. Bixler, President of Colby College, and a trustee of Radcliffe, will be Chaplain of the Exercises...
...Inter-House Foods Committee consists of delegates from each of the central kitchen houses, under the co-chairman-ship of Claeson and Wilber W. Marshman '57. It was formed in December when the Student Council's Food committee, which is investigating meals throughout the University, gave the five house committees permission to run a survey independent of the council, in response to complaints from students about meals...
...shows, the most popular toy-poodle tonsure is the English saddle cut, designed to leave the little dogs looking like lions. On Wilber's larger cousin, the standard poodle, the saddle cut once served a purpose. When the standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...