Word: hap
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...produce a Broadway show to rival This Is the Army, he offered unsolicited help, announcing to the top brass that he could get Moss Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, etc.-none of whom he knew. Then he confronted Hart in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza and told him that General Hap Arnold needed his services. Then he told Arnold to wire Hart. The result was Winged Victory-eventually worth more than $5,000,000 to the Air Corps' relief fund...
...HAP'PINESS, n. [from happy.] The agreeable sensations which spring from the enjoyment of good ; that state of a being in which his desires are gratified, by the enjoyment of pleasure without pain ; felicity; but happiness usually expresses less than felicity, and felicity less than bliss. Happiness is comparative. To a person distressed with pain, relief from that pain affords happiness ; in other cases we give the name happiness to positive pleasure or an excitement of agreeable sensations. Happiness therefore admits of indefinite degrees of increase in enjoyment, or gratification of desires. Perfect happiness, or pleasure unalloyed with pain...
...rising tide of applications has had a direct effect on the admisperiences are, we are just as hap-ago Radcliffe accepted 25 such applicants; this year only nine were admitted. The shortage of housing space--a perennial problem since the Second World War--leaves the College with just barely enough room for the freshman class and makes a substantial number of transfers unthinkable. Describing the dilemma in 1958, Jordan declared that "fully ten per cent of the places in this college belong as of academic right" to transfer applicants who wish to major in esoteric subjects not taught elsewhere...
Died. Mary Hall ("Mother") Tusch, 82, friend and mother-away-from-home to two generations of aviators, whose frame cottage opposite the air-training school on the University of California's Berkeley campus was known as "The Hangar" by thousands of visiting airmen, including Hap Arnold (who dubbed it "the first U.S.O."), Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker from 1915 until 1950; of a stroke; in Washington...
...Miss-hap. In Kampala, Uganda, the country's first "Miss Uganda" contest ended somewhat unhappily when one of the contestants had a miscarriage...