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Brewer's: Booby

A spiritless fool, who suffers himself to be imposed upon. In England the Solan goose is called a booby or noddy. (Spanish, bobo; German, bube.) A booby will never make a hawk. The bird…

2001 Drama Desk Awards

The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 20, 2001Outstanding PlayProofOutstanding MusicalThe Producers Outstanding Musical Revival42nd…

Brewer's: Learn

(1 syl.). Live and learn. Cato, the censor, was an old man when he taught himself Greek. Michael Angelo, at seventy years of age, said, “I am still learning.” John Kemble wrote out Hamlet…

800 meters

800 metersYear Time 1928 Lina Radke, GER 2:16.8 WR1932-56 Not held 1960 Lyudmila Shevtsova, USSR 2:04.3 WR1964 Ann Packer, GBR 2:01.1 OR1968 Madeline Manning, USA 2:00.9 OR1972 Hildegard…

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Mayor: Mick Cornett (to 2018)City Manager: James D. Couch2010 census population (rank): 579,999 (31); Male: 285,556 (49.2%); Female: 294,443 (50.8%); White: 363,646 (62.7%); Black: 87,354 (…

Entertainment News from February 2001

1 Survivor II survives a “Super-Sized” assault from Friends. Survivor II earns a 17.1 rating (each rating point represents 1,000,800 households using television), and the 40–minute Friends…

Acknowledgments

The first five editions of The Columbia Encyclopedia were published in 1935, 1950, 1963, 1975, and 1993. All editions owe a debt of gratitude to Clark Fisher Ansley, the editor of the first edition,…

USBC Queens Tournament Champions

1961 Janet Harman1962 Dorothy Wilkinson1963 Irene Monterosso1964 D.D. Jacobson1965 Betty Kuczynski1966 Judy Lee1967 Mildred Martorella1968 Phyllis Massey1969 Ann Feigel1970 Mildred…