Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly 300 years, Laval University had been almost as grim and ascetic as its founder, François de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny, first bishop of Quebec. The bishop wore a hair shirt, watered his soup, slept on wood. The university, which De Laval started as a seminary in 1663, was cramped into narrow, grey stone buildings in Quebec City's huddled Quartier Latin. Its curriculum concentrated on theology, law and medicine. For diversion, students were expected to turn to religious reading or take meditative walks in the walled courtyard of the university...
Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC Television). Dinner at Eight, with Peggy Wood, Dennis King, Mary Boland...
...that was the year Yale won the famous 3-0 upset. Harvard's Barry Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
...primary task of the American Government in Germany is to re-establish that country as a buffer against Russia. Nazism is only a side issue with General Clay. are more important than people, anyway. Judson Wood...
Some resolution to be dutiful and good Owed by the lost child to the dreadful wood...