Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an unaccountable gloom settled over Washington, wrapping its marble palaces in melancholy thick as the wet grey fogs that float up from the Potomac. Congress seemed listless, disheartened, worried...
...house plan, by which undergraduates are expected to eat in the houses, has not changed Porkies' habits: they still have dinner every evening at the club. There they solemnly observe certain traditions. One of these is a crew song. At a certain point, as they sing "I float like a feather," members whip handkerchiefs out of their pockets and toss them into the air to float...
...grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head...