Word: byrum
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...soon a wind starts to whistle somewhere behind those empty spaces. The rhythmic monotony on board ship ("Will relieves Buddy, Byrum relieves Will, Wodies relieves Byrum") is broken by staccato quarrels and spurts of activity when the turtles are hauled in. The crew members emerge from anonymity as their speech patterns and private obsessions are repeated. The dialects begin to tease the ear with unheard melodies. Descriptive passages, when they occur, achieve a haunting beauty: "Where the bonita chop the surface, the minnows spray into the air in silver showers, all across the sunlit coral...
...John D. Byrum '62-Terry D. Ochler 62 team was named the top affirmative squad, while J. Eugene Clements '63 and Laurence H. Tribe '62 received the top honors among those arguing the negative. Tribe was also named best speaker of the tournament...
...Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, prior to Repeal, were indicted in North Carolina for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Both had been convicted of similar charges before. Chambers had even pleaded guilty to the present charge but had not been sentenced. After Repeal a Federal Judge in North Carolina dismissed the indictments. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week Chief Justice Hughes handed down a unanimous decision freeing not only 'Leggers Gibson and Chambers but also some 13,000 others indicted under a law that vanished from the statute books Dec. 5. The Supreme Court held...