Word: rowlands
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were...
...evening last summer, British Disc Jockey Christopher Rowland, bored with requests for a hit of the moment, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, flipped his Cake record over, played Songstress Eve Young's swingy version of the oldtimer. Almost at once, BBC listeners began shifting allegiance...
Korea was once rated one of the most Christianized of Far Eastern lands; in 1914, 1% of the 15,500,000 population were Christians. Since the Japanese occupation and the Russian-U.S. partition, no reliable figures are available. But about the Christians who are left, Dr. Rowland M. Cross, secretary for the Far East for the Foreign Missions Conference, has no doubts. Said he: "The Korean Christians are the stuff that martyrs are made of, and we expect them to hold fast...
Associate Professor Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28 will receive a full professorship of Fine Arts, Provost Buck announced last night. The promotion is effective July...
Professor Rowland is an expert in Far Eastern Art and Italian Medieval Painting. He is noted for his work on the figure style of Buddhist artists, and how it affected Greek sculpture. Rowland has written two books and numerous articles on fine arts...