Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces' Commanding General, he had fought the good fight for a separate air arm. When the fight was won, he had become the independent Air Force's first Chief of Staff. Last week, following the earlier example of Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle and others of the little group of pioneer U.S. birdmen, Tooey Spaatz retired...
Essayan, a 22 year old Junior, sat on the bench during most of the southern trip, but his peppery performance in practice this week has impressed Samborski. It is no accrete that the throwing of his catchers down south displeased the Harvard coach. "Essayan has a good arm," he says, "and is a pretty fair hitter, too." The former Watertown High three-letterman collected two hits against Suffolk Wednesday afternoon...
...post of catcher is still wide open, and Samborski is looking for a steady receiver with a good arm for the long throw to second. Clif Crosby and Webby Durant Split the catching chores in the games last week but neither of them has cinched a starting assignment...
Over the Gulch. The ancient Hawaiians had long grown sugar cane on the islands, but it was New England missionaries like Baldwin's grandfather Dwight (he came in 1831) who brought Yankee traders to commercialize it. It was Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank...
Although he is generally quite happy ever the results of the program, some events have left Dr. Thorndike in despair. A certain Eliot House veteran, after exercising a shattered arm into workable condition during the school year, wound up in a summer vacation accident and re-broke the limb in an identical place. He's hard at work again right now, with a good chance of regaining full use of the limb...