Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officialdom was ready with instructions to cope with any emergency that might arise from the conflict. In the case of seaborne invasion, the British Museum had issued a neat booklet telling Britons what to do if they should find a whale on their beach. The prescribed procedure was simple: fill out a form (N.H.M. Form 136 tidily enclosed in the booklet), and mail it to the Keeper of Zoology. Question No. 1 on the form read: "Is the tail horizontal?" Since all whales have horizontal tails, the questionnaire continued sensibly: "If the answer to this question...
...less a tradition is Winchester's almost complete rule by the boys themselves; the head of the school government, always one of the "scholars," has five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney...
...cover" for these men, Valpey will use Sam Butler and Duke Sedgewick in place of Houston and Bender on offense; on defense, Dick Guidera and John Coan will fill in. Bill Rosenan will relieve Butler part of the time on defense, and Pete Coyne, brought up from the Jayvees this week, will provide more depth at the guard position...
...heads are buzzing with courses and hours and meeting places and half remembered advice that someone else's roommate gave them two years before. The result is a week of vacillating and browsing-known as "shopping around,"-for a fourth course, or one to audit, or just something to fill in the time between book lines. Here are some suggestions...