Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon's festivities were situated at "The Crescent" as Cornellians call Schoellkopf Field. Schoellkoph, a lover of sunsets, built one side of it in the shape of a fan (with a maximum of seats near the 50-yard line) so that spectators could admire the sun melting into Lake Cayuga late in the afternoon...
Free time in the day was spent swimming or rowing on a nearby lake, playing ping-pong, or dozing in an easy chair. Most students devoted the evenings to chess or checkers, study in a luxuriously-furnished library, or listening to concerts of classical music in the music room...
Smack. In Sand Lake, Mich., John W. Vos, suddenly remembering that he had not kissed his wife goodbye, turned back, collided with a car driven by his wife rushing to overtake...
...Republicans were as amiable as the candidate who was mad at nobody. In Columbus, Ohio, Warren was greeted by Senator Robert Taft, who shook his head dubiously over Warren's nonpartisan speech in Salt Lake City (TIME, Sept. 27). "I read with great interest what Governor Warren had to say," said forthright Bob Taft. "You know that is exactly contrary to everything I stand...
Twelve-Day Search. Weak from short rations and exertion, chilled by near-freezing rain, they fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...