Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycle jaunts, often in conjunction with outing clubs of neighboring women's colleges, average 35 miles round trip. These journeys have taken in such points of interest as the Blue Hills, Cape Ann, and Walden Pond, of Thoreau fame...
Baseball's Hall of Fame exists mostly in the minds of sportswriters. But their official choices for immortality are also listed on bronze plaques in Cooperstown, N.Y., known as the birthplace of baseball...
...average age of the appointees is 44 years. Six are under 40 and 12 more between 40 and 45. Youngest of the group is 29-year-old Robert B. Woodward, elevated to the position of associate professor of Chemistry, who gained fame during the war through his discovery, in conjunction with Dr. William V. Doering, of a synthetic process for manufacturing quinine...
...keep his story as fresh as the news on Page One, Caniff shamelessly picks the brains of his pals, and even copies their faces. Colonel Phil Cochran, an old college chum, gave him a correspondence course in flying-and won more fame as Colonel Flip Corkin than for leading the glider invasion of Burma under his own name. Red Cross and Army nurses midwifed Caniff's yellow-tressed Nurse Taffy Tucker. Caniff had been to Britain, Europe and Africa, but never to the Orient, where all the action in Terry took place...
...significance of the ceremony is ever to match its publicity, the honorary degree should not merely attend national fame or political prominence. Presumably, the University hopes that its prestige will be extended primarily by the men it sends out into the world with its regular degrees. Special honors should be reserved for those who exemplify its ideals; whom it wishes it could claim for its own but cannot unless it be through the device of the honorary degree...