Word: gar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing against Tufts before a large Jubilee crowd, the Yardlings took an early 3 to 2 lead and increased it with two big three run innings. Gar Cranney sparked a sixth inning Yardling rally when he singled with the bases loaded. Bill Chauncey pitched the complete game for his second win. He gave up only one run in the last five innings...
...several men a lifetime. He rose from a painter's helper at Boeing to production boss of its Seattle plant, ran Consolidated Vultee's World War II production and, later, Howard Hughes's aircraft plant, then took on the presidency of Detroit's money-losing Gar Wood Industries, Inc. Three years ago, after Gar Wood was in the black, Perelle took on his toughest challenge. He became president of Philadelphia's money-losing ACF-Brill Co., which makes buses...
...from the Washington Star: "Pack, '51 dlx 4 dr, ultra, R.H., 1262 act mi." (Translation: 1951 Packard four-door deluxe with Ultramatic Drive, radio and heater, has been driven 1262 actual miles.) From the Denver Post: "New Ig Iv rm, frpl, 2 bdrm, Ig kt, exp attic cel gar." (Translation: a new house with a large living room with fireplace, two bedrooms, large kitchen, expansion attic and cellar garage.) Automobiles are "jim dandy," "slick as a whistle," "A-i," "just like new," "never a wreck," "peachy keen," and "loaded" (all the extras). The highest praise: "You'll simply...
...R.A.F. flying boat crashed in Scotland. They are: Edward, now Duke of Kent, Michael (whose godfather was Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Alexandra. Last of all in direct succession is George VI's only sister, the Princess Royal, and her family: George, seventh Earl of Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), sometime opera critic for the left-wing New Statesman and married to a Viennese pianist, their year-old son, and his younger brother, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), who once shocked the court by falling in love with a bonny barmaid, reduced the shock by not marrying...
...mural is a mass of jumbled co and symbol. A story around the camels that no one knew what it meant Eleanor Roosevelt saw it once and marked with surprise that it was pi propaganda. But the college did not to it down, and many expect the gar work to become quite famous. "And that's to be the case," said an alumna "we want it at Dartmouth...