Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Omen. At the end, just in front of the university macebearer, came General Ike himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
...automobile clubs reported other gripes: angled windshields gave more vision in many directions, but they also admitted more glare. Short drivers had difficulty in seeing over the hood. Slanting rear windows looked pretty but they collected snow in winter. Almost all the new cars were bigger or more powerful than their earlier prototypes; they rode easier, had a faster pickup and greater speed. Compared to prewar models they looked like custom-built guided missiles. What was worrying their owners was the job of keeping them that...
...bottom photo, snapped a split second later, shows Houston completing his block, while Petrillo gets up full stream for the end zone. End coach Elmer Madar can now be seen standing between Petrillo and Don Nosak (left center), and the man with the hood on in the middle of the picture is line coach Forrest "Butch" Jordan...
...luncheons of crab Louis and boysenberry pie, a picnic in the park, a tea at the Art Museum. The Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches, the Chamber of Commerce distributed apples. Miss Howe had also arranged for conferences between the new teachers and their principals, shown them around their classrooms. Said Teacher Kenneth Means: "Portland...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). A continued critical look at "Children's Classics," with a discussion of Howard Pyle's Robin Hood...