Word: haps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall noticed the president playing touch football with his sons in the Yard behind his house on Quincy Street. According to a CRIMSON of the fall of 1933, the football-playing president "appeared to be enjoying himself hugely." The president's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines in the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas "real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alpine Club. A wrenched back and the Second...
...Tech affiliation with Radio Radcliffe came about in a rather hap-hazard manner. A 'Cliffe staffer took her date, an M.I.T. student, on a tour of the plant one day and pointed out some equipment that was in poor shape. Always attentive to his girl friend's problems, the Tech man showed up a few days later with a host of electrically-oriented companions who proceeded to work out the difficulties in no time. Thus began a beautiful friendship with no fear of dominance--M.I.T. is too far away...
...Washington, Air Secretary Lovett took one look at U.S. defense nakedness, another at the tremendous lesson of Nazi air victories in Europe, and fought a campaign to get top priorities for a big U.S. bomber fleet. Then, holding down impulsive Air Chief "Hap" Arnold with a gentle hand, he skillfully got the air corps raised to the status of a semi-independent air force...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...
...Dodge-operated plant had turned out 18,413 engines, cut the cost to the Army by more than one-half (from $26,000 to $12,000 apiece), and kept ahead of schedule every month, despite some 6,274 design changes. Wrote General "Hap" Arnold: "You accomplished what seemed to be the impossible...