Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned by former Cityites Ira Kukin 1G, Herbert B. Thau 3L, and Ascher Katz 3L. Kukin and his confederates have had the possibility of a local graduate organization in mind since last year when they saw the enthusiasm and support via Cambridge television of the "Grand Slam Kids"--the Beaver team that swept through seven straight games to take both the National Invitation Tournament and N.C.A.A. titles in Madison Square Garden...
...grad-school spectators yelled anyway, because the four-man-plus team looked like champions for the first time this season. Holman threw a slow, deliberate offense at the Crusaders, in contrast to the usual fast-breaking Beaver style. With Romar and Warner alternating in the pivot, Holman's plays constantly drew the shifting man-to-man front line of defense out of position. The Crusaders had far more trouble with Holmans tight three-two zone. But the short of its was--the starting four lasted...
...Beaver & Velvet. To anyone who had watched the death of Nanking in 1949, the death of Seoul was a familiar tale: the empty streets, the one or two deserted trolleys that rocked forlornly along the main stem, the last tired oxen plodding patiently southward, were all sharply reminiscent of similar scenes in China. At week's end the wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl...
...bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught the eye of the Beaver, who took him over in 1943. Overnight, Giles won a huge following in wartime Britain, notably American soldiers, who liked his good-humored pot shots at their habits. At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane which had just crashed into a German house. Its crew...
With his hands full of plane engine production, Hives got an urgent request from Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook: Would Rolls make a new high-powered tank engine? Hives said no. When the Beaver persisted, Hives said yes, if the government would give him a credit of ?1,000,000 and let him strictly alone. Hives adapted the Merlin for tanks, made it the forerunner of the power plant in the Centurion...