Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After six-and-a-half minutes of action, during which the teams matched baskets, Columbia's diminutive Sherry Marshall dropped three lofty set shots that gave the Lions a convincing 18 to 8 lead. At this point the Varsity called time, and proceeded to embark on its most spectacular rally of the season...
Robert D. Crane '49 and Frederick I. Ordway '49 will embark for Jibuti, French Somaliland, this afternoon in an UNRRA cattleboat, they announced yesterday before leaving for Baltimore to pick up the ship. From Jibuti, the peripatetic duo plans to proceed to Addis Ababa, and thence south into Central Africa...
First Watch exasperatingly keeps promising that McFee will soon swallow the anchor and embark on his great American adventure. Yet just as he finally does sail for the States (where he wrote most of his 23 books, and where he is still living and working, at 66, as a book reviewer for the New York Sun), McFee ends his story. When he daydreams of gimbal lamps and fiddley gratings, he illustrates his abiding fault: maundering. But when he describes a desperate journey on a sinking ship, he exemplifies his talent for hard factuality in a handsome style...
Doughty, able Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson asked the provincial legislature for authority to raise a loan of $10,500,000, then to embark on an ambitious project to buttress Manitoba's basic agricultural economy with new and expanded industries. If he got the loan, he proposed to add $5,500,000 more which the Government had laid aside out of tidy wartime surpluses...
Dutch Treat. The U.S. wartime policy of allocating surplus air transports to foreign airlines paid a fat dividend. The Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) bought 16 surplus transports and The Netherlands Government granted U.S. airlines cabotage (the right to land and embark cargo and passengers en route to any destination in the world served by American flag lines in Holland). Thus the Dutch subscribed to the "Five Freedoms" drafted (but not adopted by all the countries) last year at the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference (TIME, Dec. 11). Result: American Airlines Overseas, Inc., formerly American Export Airlines, certified...