Word: fairfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scientific Revolution." In the lean years after World War II, a new generation of Malthusians sprouted. Between 1938 and 1946, world food production declined by 5%, whereas the population increased by 10%, and it was upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase...
...superior students. West Hartford's Alfred Plant Junior High School began an experimental program for them in 1950. At Hillhouse High School in New Haven, exceptionally bright students were put to work handling primary source material for a civic commemoration. Programs have also been set up in Darien, Fairfield, Norwalk, Cheshire, Stratford. Almost all Connecticut schools, in varying degrees, have begun to give special attention to superior students...
Yale overcame a six-point deficit in what it had billed as "the rugby championship of America" to beat the Crimson 13-6 at the Fairfield County Hunt Club Saturday. It was Yale's first intercollegiate victory of the season...
Despite a continuing, loud rumble of complaint, many commuters, including Fairfield County Commuters Association President Thomas Early, were willing to give McGinnis credit for at least holding the line. He had withdrawn a 25-30% fare increase submitted by Dumaine to the Interstate Commerce Commission on the ground that it could cause more commuters to drive to New York. He had rescinded a Dumaine order to cut 46 trains off the entire system. He was also trying to boost revenues by encouraging drivers to climb aboard the New Haven; crews were stationed at parkways into New York to check...
Willie was dead right. He was indeed a pro ballplayer, and the big-league scouts soon had their eyes on him. In the spring of 1950, agents of the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Braves were waiting for his class to graduate from Fairfield High so that they could make him an offer. While they waited, a couple of hustling Giant scouts, Ed Montague and Bill Harris, came to Birmingham to take a look at the Barons' first baseman. That night Montague telephoned New York. "That first baseman won't do," he reported...