Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When word came through yesterday that 75 Smith students had offered to knit "beautiful" socks for the Cleveland Indians, a sizeable quota of Cliffedwellers made it plain that, win or lose, the Boston Braves were still their number one heroes...
...Baseball, What Is That?" San Francisco, where Joe grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...
...Catholic editors: "The Pentateuch [first five books of the Bible] is substantially the work of Moses. It is a closely knit literary unit and was originally conceived as one work written for a single purpose." Say the Protestant editors: "The Pentateuch did not receive its final form until about 400 B.C. . . . The contents of Genesis preserve no hint as to the names of its authors and editors . . . Whoever the author of Genesis was, he must have had ancient sources at his disposal, for no one man could have been witness to all the events described. This means that the present...
...least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (she is chairman of its educational policies committee) backed her up, and the American Council of Learned Societies gave her $7,500 to prove her point...
Sybil Kathigasu was flown to Britain, where the King gave her the George Medal for civilian heroism. Ten operations failed to knit together her broken body. During two years, in & out of British hospitals, she laboriously wrote her story, to be published under her underground code name, "Sab." "The world must know what kind of people these Japanese are," said Sybil. "Already memories are growing short...