Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HACKING NEW YORK?Robert Hazard ?Scribbler...
Seeing deeper, perhaps, than most of his associates, Taximan Hazard has hacked New York for almost nine years. He knows the personality, the temperament of all the biggest city's corners. His small book relates episodes of his days and nights on the street, not the story of his life. Racing as swiftly as his Packard cab, dodging elevated railroad pillars, circling Central Park, coasting through Greenwich Village, roaring about Hell's Kitchen and along Broadway, his sketches glimpse people mean, kind, tough, luxurious, dull...
...transition from the preparatory school to the large college or university under present conditions is a hazard for the average boy. I have felt that Harvard freshmen dormitories have filled a great need in the life of the boy going to Harvard. I trust that in the new housing scheme the freshman will be given full consideration...
...place of the Wright Whirlwinds customarily installed. Ford announced that Diesels would be optional equipment in future. So did Stinson Aircraft Corp. Chief virtues of the engine, which has been developed in the U. S. with considerable secrecy by Packard Motors Co.: low cost of fuel, reduction of fire hazard, elimination of ignition, and of radio interference. Capt. L. M. Woolson last month flew a Diesel-powered Stinson from Detroit to Miami, approximately 1,200 miles, on $8.50 worth of fuel. Of prime importance to airplane builders is the reduction of Diesel engine weights to compare with gasoline engines...
James De Wolf Perry, 58, of Providence, R. I., was born in Germantown, Pa., son of a rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home...