Word: companions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also last week a letter-writer to the New York Sun told this story: "President Coolidge was taking one of his morning walks with a friend. . . . 'There's Borah on his horse,' remarked the President's companion. 'Is he headed in the same direction as the horse?' asked President Coolidge...
Last week the Academy gave Miss Sabin a companion of her own age and quality, Margaret Floy Washburn.? In 1908 Miss Washburn published her first book, The Animal Mind and simultaneously became professor of psychology at Vassar, where she had been an associate for five years. For a term she was president of the American Psychological Association, and for another, vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Miss Sabin can match her there, having been one-term vice president and two-term president of the American Association of Anatomists...
Three days later, while dining with a companion at the Aratoga Inn near Cairo, Gangster Diamond was shot in the back. Seriously wounded, he was rushed to an Albany hospital, 50 mi. away...
...exceptionally useful to their country in the event of another war. But last week the War Department regretfully announced that it had lost track of almost half of its aces, sought through the public prints the whereabouts of 28 of them. Among the "missing" were famed Jerry Vasconcelles, companion of the late Hero Frank ("Balloon Buster") Luke, and Jaques M. Swaab, credited with ten enemy planes...
...caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant later. As the two officers drifted safely, slowly earthward beneath their billowing 'chutes, there was a terrific blast overhead, then a rain of metal fragments, bits of what had been an airplane...