Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting so fed up with Pop spending the whole time talking politics." It was politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, in his order sending the little Asiatic Fleet into the Strait, could have written no fitter farewell to his command (see p. 23). His battle order: Submarines and surface ships will attack the enemy, and no vessel will leave the scene of action until it is sunk or all its ammunition exhausted...
...Nova Scotia sea captain, George Cutten was a reporter, appletree seller, pipe fitter, football coach and Baptist minister before he became a college president. When he was 18, his uncle locked him in a room and refused to let him out until he would agree to go to college. George finally decided to go to play football. At Acadia College and at Yale he was a star center, worked his way by preaching at nearby churches, He got a divinity degree and Ph.D. in psychology, writing his thesis on The Psychology of Alcoholism, which fortified him for a lifelong avocation...
...with his crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans when Finn Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8 min., 58.2 sec. That was 16 years ago. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, barrel-chested, short-legged Gregory Rice, 25-year-old ex-Notre Damer, made mighty Nurmi's record look poky. Fitter-pattering around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March, Runner Rice whittled the two-mile world's record down to 8:53.4-nearly three seconds faster than the accepted world's record, indoors or out. "Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans...