Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose name is a romantic byword wherever sulkymen gather, it was no comeback. This year's Hambletonian was the fourth he had won since the classic got under way in 1926 (no other driver has won more than twice) when Mr. Ben was a stripling of 53. It was the second Hambletonian he had snatched with his gnarled, gentle hands in two years of racing. For age and longtime performance, U.S. sport had never seen his equal...
...more & more patients. The hospital moved back & back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...
Less & Less. The best bet to ease civilian shortages is still better distribution. Last week WPB's Executive Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson sharply increased Whiteside's powers, gave him the last word in WPB over inventories and distribution. No longer will caches of goods gather dust in sleepy towns while acute shortages in mushrooming war centers hit production...
Spry Uncle Fred sat in his office last week, and snapped a rubber band. He was melancholy. Said he: "If an institution stays around for ten years, it has probably done all it can do. . . . I plan soon to go to Alaska again to gather some data for the War Department. . . . The work? It is bound to come back again, of course...
Floyd Stahl will gather the binge bouncers on the Varsity baseball diamond at Soldiers Field for a hit fest and a ball session from 4 to 6 o'clock daily. Those who are talented are urged to come out, but the squad will have to be cut to a manageable size...