Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are courses in History, English, French, Government in fact there are courses in practically everything that no one ever discusses outside of class. But supposing that there are twenty sophomores with a burning desire to discuss the latest methods in bee culture, or needle work or Japanese history. Supposing also (this is unlikely but simply for argument's sake) that there is a Philosophy section man who is also interested in bee-propagation. How are the twenty sophomores going to learn that their secret you is also the burning but dark passion of the section man? Unless one recognizes...
...opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down the runway it careened like an insane bumblebee, finally bouncing into the air at the very end. Three minutes later, still out of control, it somersaulted into a potato field two miles from the airport, smashed...
...part of Boston's tercentenary celebration and it commemorated a spinning contest held there 182 years ago which ended in a riot when some 600 Boston husbands took exception to the distribution of prizes. Last week, loafers on the Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...owner of a Back Bay rooming house and uses the proceeds from his knitting to help support Mrs. Cann who has become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize, when the bee was over...
...radio. Of 320 "dead" shells fired at the Centurion, 56 hit the mark. Last of the maneuvers was the one stunt feature of this month's air, land and sea reviews. The King, who despises stunts, barely consented to watch a new-fangled gadget called a Queen Bee zip off the deck of an aircraft carrier and fly without a pilot by radio control to attack H. M. S. Rodney. To the oldfangled Monarch's immense satisfaction the first Queen Bee tumbled into the water almost before it got started and the second was shot down by Rodney...