Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, it was routine. But for seven U.S. correspondents, permitted for the first time...
Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...
From mastodon to mice has been the tale of Boylston Hall's degradation. Built in the ivy-covered year 1857, it housed the chemical laboratories, the anatomical museum, and something called the New Jersey Mastodon. This latter exhibit proved a bad start, for the bones had been put together inexpertly and became a laughing stock in mastodonic circles. Reassembled, it has long since migrated to another part of the University, and the anatomical museum has gone in town to the Medical School...
...Indian team to watch are fullback Harvey "Stud" Johnson and left guard Garrard Ramsey. A 210 pound lad from Bridgeton, New Jersey, Johnson provided the winning margin against Dartmouth last year when he kicked a 27 yard field goal and did the same thing this year with a 22 yard goal against Navy. In addition to his outstanding ability as a place kicker, "Stud" is also a powerful ball carrier and a great defensive player...
...Donnell, Jack fisher, George Waters and Jack Comeford all looked good in the former department, and Leo Flynn and Gordy Lyle shone in the B-C scrimmage, both of them getting away for several long runs. A 150 pound, 5 foot ten inch. Freshman tailback from South Orange, New Jersey, Flynn also tossed quite a few long passes that ate up a lot of yardage for the B eleven...