Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...
...residents consider the Institute for Advanced Study "that place where Einstein thinks." It is the truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
Four sophomores in Jordan House, rising in ire at what they termed "alienation of Smith's affections for Harvard," offered to prove to any Crimson sock fancier that they knit much more bejeweled patterns than Radcliffe does...
...original inspiration for the Radcliffe statements was an urge to knit for the pennant-winning Braves. But the baseball season is over now, and apparently the quartet from Northampton rates a Harvard man in October a better bet than a baseball player next...
...only possible hitch is that the Radcliffe girls may not be able to handle the entire Braves team. "You know," a group at Barnard Hall explained last night, "we don't have as much time here as those Smith girls do, but the socks we do knit will beat any of theirs...