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...Crimson added three more in the fourth, with Hastings' wind-blown triple the key blow, and two in the fifth to complete its scoring...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Crimson Baseball Team Overcomes M.I.T. Nine, 13-7 | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

Taunting Xavier and his faith, Mirbel agrees to go back to his wife if Xavier will forget about his seminary obligations and come with him. The dark, wind-blown mansion to which Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted boy of nine. There is a vapid secretary-governess who purrs around Xavier like a cat on a hot tiled roof. There is the self-centered stepmother-in-law, a grande dame sans merci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Scourge of Sanctity | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Eden family seat for 400 years was Windlestone Hall, a porticoed ocher pile surrounded by lawns, lake and a line of wind-blown beeches, 254 miles north of London. Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Anthony Eden: The Man Who Waited | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Stowe-Mansfield -16-30, 6 wind-blown powder. Fair to good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.E. Resorts Report Good Skiing; Varsity in First Race Tomorrow | 12/17/1954 | See Source »

ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The INLAND EMPIRE | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

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