Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English in textbook and lecture. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he traveled eight years as a Basic missionary in Europe and China, in 1939 became director of the Harvard Commission on English Language Studies under a Rockefeller grant. His textbook for Massachusetts adult aliens (soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin) made a big hit in Latin America. One of his two Basic helpers in China was killed in a bombing raid; the other, in Kunming, has reported a lively business in the first book of Basic English for Chinese...
...indications of business-as-usual appeared; the new Houghton Library for rare books was dedicated on February 28; the threatened death of the "Mole" in the Dick Tracy comic strip had brought residents of Adams House up in arms for his defense, bombarding Chester Gould with telegrams and letters; Clark Hodder, hockey coach, quit under fire, because of a training break he authorized at Lake Placid; and intercollegiate sports programs continued practically as usual...
Every night we have observed large windows which have not been darkened in compliance with precautionary measures. W. B. Sanford, Alan N. Houghton, Thomas D. Connolly, Jr., Samuel Robbins, Franklin C. French, Calvin W. Cutler, Edward M. Rothman, Thaxter Swan, James E. Connor...
Hailing from Newton High, MacKinnon starred in the hurdles at school, and was captain of the '43 team in his Freshman year. He succeeds Bob Houghton, Crimson half-miler...
Hall, B.; Hewitt, J. W.; Harrison, R. C.; Hinners, D. G.; Hoe, E. L.; Holmes, E. B.; Houghton, A. N.; Humphrey...