Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most widely held theory, to explain this year's spurt, is a search for outdoor sport to break the winter grind with the books. "Studies are cramping," says Grace Tuttle '49. "Even on a nearby ski slope, college seems miles away." There's nothing like it to restore tired tissues after a round of examinations, says Betty Crowley '49. And Georgette Haigh '49 thinks that skiing provides the balance between study and recreation that is demanded by the new type of college girl...
Canada, which had only one sure string to its Olympic bow, had to wait eight days to score a point. Then Glamor Girl Barbara Ann Scott (TIME, Feb. 2), with grace and precision, outshone 24 competitors to win the women's Olympic figure-skating championship. Her victory was so big an event in Canada that Prime Minister Mackenzie King personally wired her congratulations, and announced his action, amid cheers, in Ottawa's House of Commons. Final winners: Sweden (with 82 points), followed by Switzerland...
Astronomer-Ballistician Hubble came back from his second war with the Medal of Merit, and settled down. With his wife, the former Grace Burke, he lives in a charming mission-style house in San Marino, near Pasadena, on the edge of a steep geological fault which he thinks may be incubating an earthquake...
...considers Jean Borotra the game's greatest showman and most expert faker. The best player: Don Budge, who had "no subtlety, no finesse, little grace and practically no variety to his game, but for hitting power...
Pleased. Beth Steel's Eugene Grace was pleased. But he was also worried. He knew as well as anyone that fat profits would heat up labor's demands for another round of wage boosts. It is better to cut prices, Grace said: "Lower prices would be beneficial to industry and the country as a whole." But Steelman Grace said nothing about cutting his prices, and neither did any other leaders of his industry...