Word: benching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's German Sieger or champion and as such is required to have passed certain training tests. This naturally leads him to be wary of strangers. While on the bench he is doing his duty of guarding and consequently is not friendly to spectators...
...Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank...
...Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become counsel...
...over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
Oakland to Stead: If you land on water, wheels up. If you land on bench, wheels down...