Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
...everything didn't look sour enough for the outcome of the still-distant Yale meet, Mikkola's immediate clashes with Tufts, led by Olympic-trained Ted Vogel, Holy Cross, and then Rhode Island surely won't boost morale...
Coming here in 1916 from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Del Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore year for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and was given his degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a glass on cloth. That ended when the mill shut down. Next he tried selling Addresograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and to the Business School. It was while there that Dean Greenough asked him to become one of his assistant deans. His interest in economics...
There are other strange beasts in the sea, says Ley, that zoologists do not recognize. For example, there is a turtle-like creature, much bigger than known sea turtles, called a niuhi in Easter Island and a moha-moha in Queensland. It may range all over. Last winter, says Ley, a large unknown animal tried to climb a sea wall in Florida, leaving great moha-moha like tracks in the sand...
Died. E. Eastman ("Deac") Irvine, 65, folksy editor of the World Almanac, who built a successful journalistic career on the conviction that all newspaper readers are just like the folks in his home town (La Crosse, Wis.); of a heart attack: in Staten Island...