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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing pole hidden out back somewheres." In high school Chuck speeded up some. Miss Gonza Methel, a teacher, remembers him as "one of the best geometry students I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Part of the Bargain. He was not a prisoner long. The Spaniards had neglected to take away his escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for a while, swiping chickens." Then the British gathered them up and forwarded them to England. "The British fed us good," says Chuck, "I gained 25 pounds." Right off, he shot down five Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...should be able to carry nearly twice as much lox and alcohol. This single improvement (there may be others) should push it into a much higher speed range. Numerous guessers around California airfields speculate that it ought to climb well above 100,000 ft. At this altitude the air is so thin that tremendous speed should be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...swamped. The U.S. Government had just issued a new 3? stamp in honor of the occasion, and collectors everywhere were writing in for first-day covers. One Swedish philatelist added that he had been a lifelong admirer of "Sir Washington and Sir Lee." That was a fairly universal sentiment around Lexington this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Gentlemen Minks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...never became a "headline character." But among Elis he was both admired and loved. In campus gatherings he liked to sing The Sword of Bunker Hill, waving a blade in accompaniment. He still collected first editions of A. Conan Doyle and E. Phillips Oppenheim, and liked to invite students around for beer and talk on a Sunday evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Blue | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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