Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard breaststroke, in which John Meyer of Yale is the favorite. His consistent ability to negotiate the distance in a fraction over 2:25 serves to rank him ahead of such butterflies as Arvid Croonquist of the Army, Joe Jodka of Massachusetts State, John Podgorski of Concord College and Charlie Gantner of Rutgers. Jodka and Gantner are possible surprise winners, both having done 2:26 this winter...
Abbott T. Fenn of Concord and Winthrop House was elected permanent class secretary yesterday when approximately 400 Seniors went to the polls to cast votes for 14 class officers. Richard G. Pfister of Edgemont, South Dakota and Winthrop House, and George W. Heiden of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Winthrop House, were top men in the voting for Class Day Committee and Permanent Class Committee...
...paradox was more easily solved when General George Washington was to be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. With the University at its temporary wartime quarters in Concord, the Corporation and several of the Overseers met in Water-town and on April 3 voted Washington the degree That same day they made the award at the General's headquarters in Craigie House...
Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...Little New Deal. After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...