Word: groton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...
...Signet Society. Aside from the Signet and the daily round of ministerial activity, he finds a great deal of diversion in the traditional clerical sport of fishing. Lately, however, his favorite amusement has come to be the weekly ritual of rocking on the front porch of his Groton home, every Saturday afternoon...
Brown's field of concentration is History and Literature, Siler's History, and Slaggie's, Physics. Brown is a graduate of Groton School, Siler, of Ascalanes High School in California, Slaggie, of Oakwood High School, Dayton...
MILLION-DOLLAR MOTELS near Pittsburgh and Williamsburg, Va. have proved so successful for Knott Hotels Corp. that the chain will build (at a total cost of more than $3,000,000) and operate three more near Washington, Pittsburgh and Groton, Conn. Washington motel, first to be built, will have 125 air-conditioned rooms with private balconies, a restaurant, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with cabanas...
...first boat will rely largely on Sam Williams, who got his rowing experience at Groton. Williams will pull the number seven oar. The rest of the crew's membership had been very uncertain until quite recently, but now it appears that Leavitt has found, by a painful trial-and-error process, the right combination to row the first boat...