Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the twin rows of cypresses that lead up to Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, an old Japanese farmer paused last week to explain his year-end pilgrimage. "The people's feelings are settling down," the farmer said. "From now on it will be best for us to be...
The Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was hung with white-dipped smilax, pink lights winking among the leaves, for the 19th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. On stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall...
To show the variety of its production, Vickers' brass like to describe a trip to an imaginary city: the visitor arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers...
An expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula. The 208 rectangular houses, some of them 40 ft. long, are arranged in parallel rows for about a mile along the shore. The walls and roofs are gone, but the...
The diggers figured that the village must have been occupied for 2,000 years. The rows of houses had apparently moved downward as the level of the sea fell, and the rate of change of sea level is fairly well known. In the lowest house sites, Dorset relics are mixed...