Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night's meeting in the Varsity Club, Penrose Hallowell '32, who held the inter-collegiate mile record during his sojurn in Cambridge, handed accolades to Jaakko for being a "great coach" and a good companion on their tour through Finland a few years...
Mothers' Sons. What was the matter with them? General Cooke hazards no guess; but Psychiatrist Edward A. Strecker, an expert who helped in the medical phase of General Marshall's inquiry, does. In most cases, says he, it was Mother. In a companion book to General Cooke's (Their Mothers' Sons; Lippincott; $2.75), Dr. Strecker argues that "smother love" was the root of the psychoneurotics' trouble...
...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...
American and foreign leaders, the exceptionally clear maps, and many other things, made TIME a traveling companion I shall not do without in the future...
...Langdell, which was then an open plot of ground known as Holmes Field. Combining his fondness for exercise with an intense interest in American history, he spent the summers from 1912 to 1920 hiking over the battlefields of the Civil War. Carrying 35-pound knapsacks, he and a companion covered an average of 20 miles a day. For a man of his outstanding academic achievements, Professor Pound has maintained an unusual interest in sports. In fact the last thing he said as this writer was leaving his office was, "Have you heard how the Red Sox are doing today...