Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though nominally speaking for his own department, Frederick V. Hunt, Chairman of the Physics Department outlined the view of the majority of the University's scientists. "Close personal contact between student and faculty members... will always remain the very essence of higher education. However, in the physical sciences, the laboratory provides this opportunity for personal contact, and for the exercise and encouragement of student originality...
...this week 26 more Marines had flown in from Guam, with flame throwers and 60-mm. mortars, to join the hunt. By day they crawled cautiously up Peleliu's tortured Bloody Nose Ridge, where the ist Marine Division had lost over 6,000 casualties just 30 months before. By night they established cossack posts to bushwhack guerrillas who sneaked out in search of food & clothing. There was one change from the first, historic assault landing on Peleliu. This time the Marine reinforcements jumped at the chance to move in "for experience and target practice...
Bobo Finds One. Every rawboned, greenhorn pitcher who straggled in from the bushes was being compared with Walter Johnson; every ham-handed hitter was a potential Babe Ruth. At Orlando, Fla., Old Pitcher "Bobo" Newsom got in on the talent hunt. He strolled into the Washington Senators' camp with a rookie named Rufe Leonard in tow. Said Bobo modestly: "I don't say he'll be the fastest left-handed pitcher in the American League, because I'm not quite sure he can throw harder than Newhouser. . . ." Last week, Rufe steamed his smoke ball past bewildered...
Rebellion from the South. A man who would change all this is not a native Vermonter but a tall, determined gentleman from Virginia, Colonel Fairfax Ayres, 57. A veteran of World Wars I and II and Wall Street, Ayres retired to the Green Mountains ten years ago to hunt and fish. He bought a farm at Shaftsbury, which had a 100-year-old maple orchard. Today he owns three farms, has 3,500 buckets out and produces some 700 to 1,000 gallons of syrup. Ayres thinks that the way farmers have cut down their maple groves is bad, their...
...order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...