Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirkland M-42 KIR 1641 Fishman, F. N. '46, Lowell J-31 TRO 5984 Fossa, P. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 8797 Frank, T. '44, Dunster F-41 TRO 8327 Freedman, A. L. '46, Adams E-12 KIR 9250 G Gage, D. D. '45, Winthrop C-51 ELI 2209 Gibson, A. M. '46, Eliot L-22 TRO 6393 Gifford, N. H. '46, Leverett J-42 TRO 6704 Gillis, F. L. '46, Leverett A-42 TRO 6453 Gilman, J. R. Jr. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 8797 Goodwin, G. S., Lowell Q-11 TRO 6578 Gordon, R. S. '46, Eliot...
...Capt. Hank Bigelow, Harvard's skiers slalomed their way to an extremely creditable showing in the Gibson Trophy Race in the hills of North Conway, N. H., Saturday...
...design for future peace moved him a long step from the isolationist thinking that permeated his own party before Pearl Harbor. Last spring he had made a clean break, lined up for U.S. world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
...games are foreign. In Tri-Tactics (which is available in limited quantities in the U.S.) the British have probably the best commercial war game. It combines naval, air and land forces in checker-like movements over a map, and was invented by a British games manufacturer, Harry A. Gibson, of H. P. Gibson & Sons...
...schoolboy in the Grocers Company School in Hackney Downs, London, young Gibson invented perhaps the best of all naval war games, Dover Patrol, in 1911. (It was not manufactured until he was mustered out of the British horse artillery in 1919.) In 1925 Gibson designed Aviation, an excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice...