Word: howe
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Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout...
Mains himself had a good day, allowing six singles, whiffing three, and issuing four passes. But in the fifth inning Ford helped his own cause with a single to right, and romped home on Hacker Noyes' towering triple to right-center. Noyes tallied on Bill Howe's single. Except for that outburst, Mains kept the Bulldogs well in hand, and no man reached third base thereafter...
Hadley, H. M.; Haltiwanger, R. S.; Hameman, J. T.; Hanley, R. J.; Harris B. D.; Heiner, G. G.; Henderson, E. L.; Hertz, W. J.; Hodges C. E.; Hooper, G. R.; Howe, R. W. Howe, W. C.; Huberman...
...first school of its kind in the country, it was conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife wrote the now-famous words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The institution was named after Col. Thomas H. Perkins, who was once asked by George Washington to accept the secretaryship in his cabinet, but refused because he already owned more ships than the United States government. Between...
...months-and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U.S. history. No great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year was a German, Beethoven; the first four notes of his Fifth Symphony became the international signal of the anti-Nazi...