Word: alder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think you might be.' " By day's end both Alderman and his son had "resigned." Out of office, Alderman seemed more weary than vengeful or bitter. Said he of Knight: "I think he's as tired as I am, and he probably needs a rest too." Alder man said he had broken down his health in Knight's service. He complained specifically of a pain in the sacroiliac - which was pretty much the way Goody Knight felt about...
...incoming board are: Philip M. Cronin '53, President; Laurence D. Savadove '53, Managing Editor; Charles S. Boit '53, Business Manager; Samuel B. Potter '53, Editorial Chairman; Charles E. Zeitlin '53, Photographic Chairman; Michael J. Halberstam '53, Associate Managing Editor; James M. Storey '53, Sports Editor; and James B. Alder '53, Advertising Manager...
...last week, a sleek, black-and-grey light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made...
...mountains spread south, their forest cover gradually changes to pine and alder, then disappears entirely. And as the forest disappears, the mountains dwindle until in the far south they become mere hills...