Word: cog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peabody, then, is not only an integral part of the University but is also an important cog in the country's entire educational machinery. The very materials of the Museum are necessary to that purpose and successful in so far as they clearly exhibit the steps in the growth and multiplicity of mankind and in the evolution of material cultures. Orderly arrangement, adequate description, easy accessibility are stages to that clearness. And the progress of thought in these matters only goes when a man is given time and means to sit down with a handful of bones or a tray...
American League. For the sixth successive year, the New York Yankees are favorites to win the American League pennant. From the high-powered machine that finished 17 games ahead of their nearest rival last year, the Yankees have so far lost only one cog: First Baseman Johnny Sturm. To replace him, Manager Joe McCarthy has two candidates: Oldtimer Buddy Hassett (recently purchased from the poor Boston Braves) and a promising rookie named Eddie Levy. Among a half-dozen other Yankee farmhands considered to have enough savvy for the Big Team this year are Pitchers Johnny Lindell and Hank Borowy...
Johnny Krol, Chase's selection for one of the defense posts, is an important cog in the balanced Dartmouth line. His work has been termed consistent and aggresive, and has helped limit opponents to 22 goals throughout the entire campaign. Goalie Captain Ted Lapres, of the same team was picked as the outstanding net-minder that the Harvard team has faced this year...
Between their bargaining demand for 30% more pay and the 7½% offered by the President's fact-finding board (last cog of the mediation machinery provided by law), there was a gap as wide as a roundhouse door. But nobody, not even the men who planned to strike, wanted the strike to happen. They were certain, with the sureness of hope, that it would not happen...
Both Your Houses. In private, many Britons, like Americans, have made no bones of saying that they hoped Germany and Russia would annihilate each other, that both could go to hell. Fortnight ago no less a cog in the aid-to-Russia mechanism than sleek, sporting Minister for Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon was accused by Secretary Jack Tanner of the big Amalgamated Engineering Union of expressing just such sentiments...