Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diggings don't pan out, the minimum Alaskan construction work pay is now $3.02 an hour...
Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...
...fellowships available to provide one for every 20 students at a total cost of more than $36 million a year. But, says the report, too many of the scholarships are arbitrarily limited. Examples: scholar, ships for 1) a descendant of a Confederate soldier, 2) a descendant of an Alaskan pioneer, 3) a student surnamed Stanley, 4) a Negro preparing to be a missionary in West Africa...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
...student board of governors, Faunce House contains a mammoth stuffed Alaskan Brown bear, a fully equipped theatre, and practically all the undergraduate student activities' offices. It sponsors dances almost every week and operates fountain service and a television room...