Word: ham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fleet ham, and Ben Whitehill are the other boys who cavert in the outer gardens...
...sees "19th century philology" as harming scholarship by "burying the young student in 'research' before he knew what he was after. He was to dig it out (blind, ham-strung, as blacks in a diamond mine...
...radio and icebox salesman at Montgomery Ward's was tall Wilson Everett Burgess, 29, an amateur radio operator in his spare time. At the first whiff of the big wind, Wilson Burgess, with a radio ham's foresight and resourcefulness, began gathering all the dry cells and radio "B" batteries he could find in stock. Battling his way home with the stuff, he found his wife and baby scared but safe. But the hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung...
Last week Hero Wilson Burgess had the most satisfying reward any radio ham hopes for: selection by his fellows of The American Radio Relay League as tops for the year and the annual William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for contributing most usefully to the American people in 1938 through amateur radio. When photographers went around to take his picture, Ham Burgess squirmed diffidently, said: "Golly, I feel like Clark Gable...