Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mooney inserted into his starting lineup Sophomores Jack Naylor and Sam Retano. Both underclassmen are last and alert but it took them a while to fit into the Varsity picture. Wednesday night they proved they were out of the apprentice class with Naylor very effective on the offense on sudden dashes and Retano outstanding on the defense...
...blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial Airways, the British Government and Short Bros., famed manufacturer of Britain's famed Empire flying boats, Major Mayo built a seaplane to fit on the back of another (see cut). Last week his seaplanes separated in air for the first time...
...leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument...
...silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators into which his wealth lifts...
...University. It is the contents of the latter category, the annual reports, which are causing comment these days, although there may be some persons a bit concerned about bluebooks, as yet. During the past week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects, but it is most interesting to note that on one point their thought is closely parallel...