Word: bob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty of a beribboned frigate and boggles the English tongue in a way which has become literary legend. Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!" Then there is Bob Acres, a rustic rival for Lydia's hand whose gentlemanly pretensions nearly involve him in a duel with...
...will attempt to gain National Titles, are Al Schwartz of Northwestern in the 40-yard and 100-yard swims and also in the 220-yard swim, Garnett W. Ault of Michigan in the 440-yard free style. Dick Hinch of Northwestern in the 150-yard back stroke, Bob Howlett of Northwestern in the 200-yard breast stroke and Wentworth Lobdell of Iowa in the fancy diving. Lobdell is the only Iowa swimmer who will compete in the meet...
Important among proponents of the union is stalwart, gracious Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, 62, of Manhattan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership...
...Churchill '30, the retiring president, also stated last night that Bob Lampoon had been reelected as Caretaker of the Lampoon Building...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...