Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the policy is Associated Aviation Underwriters who, with United States Aviation Underwriters and Aero Insurance Underwriters, specialize in air-travelers' insurance. Big difficulty of actuaries was to obtain a broad enough base for computing risks because although airlines roll up countless millions of ''passenger miles" only about 350,000 individuals actually fly each year and of these barely 5% take extra air insurance at present rates. Nevertheless, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce charts show that while eight years ago airplanes flew 125,000 miles, today they fly 1,050,000 between accidents...
Likening the writing game to a baseball diamond, Halliburton said, "To get to first base, you must have the desire to write. And to get on second, you must have something to write about...
Superior fielding was responsible for Lowell's victory, with Edmund J. Doering, Jr. '40 outstanding at first base. A round of heavy slugging by the top of the Dunster batting order in a fifth inning rally threatened the eight run lead the Ramblers had amassed in the other game. The lineups: LOWELL (4) ELIOT (2) Pinansky, c. c., Wells Rogers, p. p., Tillman Deering, 1b. 1b., Madey Scott, 2b. 2b., Peterfreund Brown, s.s. s.s., Demeter Durant, 3b. 3b., Reed Shirk, s.l. s.l., Stern Kelley, l.f. l.f., Rogers Johnson, c.f. c.f., Lee Call, r.f. r.f., Uihlein Substitutions: LOWELL: White, Viets, Dale...
Tokyo cowed Paris? The supplies of munitions moving across French Indo-China into Central China and thence to Generalissimo Chiang were halted on orders from Paris last week. Rumors that Japan had threatened to seize the Chinese island of Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed...
...Saturday evening. There is, of course, a large element who predict that Harvard will get three times as many first downs, outrush by twice as much yardage, complete many more passes, and lose by one point in the last minute of play. And they have facts on which to base their case. But those who have watched the squad in its practices this fall and have seen the power they are capable of generating, refuse to believe that traditional Eli luck or Clint Frank skill will pull this one out of the fire...