Word: budding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From my old friend, Bud Rogers of Lincoln County, N.M., this letter...
When James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr. was an undergraduate at Princeton he one day helped up a crippled young man who had slipped on a Princeton sidewalk. The rich student became friendly with the cripple, eventually helped him to study at Yale Medical School, himself proceeded to Harvard Medical School. Last week young Mr. Stillman, who married a Canadian backwoods girl and is father of a three-months-old daughter, was ready to receive his Doctorate in Medicine and to devote himself to free obstetrical service among the poor.* At the moment his friend, now Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson...
...M.Sc., secured him a self-supporting job as instructor in bibliography. At a Princeton faculty tea, Instructor Carlson lost what small self-confidence he had gained when he dropped a cup before the embarrassed ladies. Princeton students cruelly avoided him. He was fast becoming a recluse again when Student "Bud" Stillman found him sprawled on the walk, became his friend, encouraged...
...crowd watched the Akron rise to 2,000 ft. with the one man still dangling beneath her. The heat grew oppressive. A yell went up as the lump at the end of the cable showed life. Sailor Charles ("Bud") Cowart had straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...
...victory of the younger men was attributed to a more intelligent grasping of the principles of base running. Although slightly bewildered during the early innings, the field workers tightened up in the final five rounds and presented an air-tight defense which nipped in the bud most of the opposing team's efforts to add to their lead...