Word: conways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ayres, Frederick S. Bacon, Roland M. Baker, Jr., Philip Barnet, Francis J. Bassett, Bancroft Beatley, Charles S. Bolster, Frederick J. Bradlee, Millar Brainard, William B. Breed, Henry P. Briggs, Frederick W. Brune, Francis W. Capper, Boughton Cobb, Robert C. Cobb, Charles R. Codman, Kenneth J. Conant, James F. Conway, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Donald C. Cottrell, Paul G. Courtney; Henry DeFord, Jr., Eben Henry McB. Parker, William A. Parker, Henry Parkman. Jr., Ronald L. Redmond, Edward Reynolds, Junius A. Richards, John Rock, H. W. Dwight Rudd, Philip H. Sherwood, David R. Sigourney, Joseph P. Spang, Jr., Henry S. Strurgis, Ernest...
General Peyton Conway March called for: "An army of 1,000,000 men. . . . There should be no nonsense about it." City College students paraded in Manhattan, with placards protesting war and the R. O. T. C.; 1,000 Dartmouth students wired the President to keep the U. S. out of war; Temple University's student chiefs telegraphed a plea to calm "war hysteria"; Harvard Professor Roger Merriman criticized a student anti-war petition as failing "to see the moral issue"; Stanford students wired Mr. Roosevelt protests at his Pan-American policies; in Manhattan Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigned...
...that Washington was in love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th...
East. New England has most of the best resorts. Noteworthy is North Conway, N. H., most famed of the recently developed Eastern Slope (of the White Mountains' Presidential Range). There Banker Harvey D. Gibson, a North Conway native, has transplanted Austria's Hannes Schneider (father of modern skiing) and his celebrated Ski School, developed 50 miles of downhill trails, installed a $125,000 skimobile (180 miniature cable cars), tripled the town's income. At nearby Franconia, Austria's Baron Hubert Pantz has established a swank ski club patterned after his famed Alpine Club Mittersill, rendezvous...
Probably the greatest influence on modern skiing is a book of which Hannes Schneider was co-author, and which is prominently displayed in the Widener basement. Schneider was founder of the Arlberg school and at present runs a ski school in North Conway, New Hampshire...