Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys were the entire student body of Landhaven School in Camden, Me. Boys at Landhaven get their education on the scene, and on the run. Next afternoon their bus was parked at Lake Success, while they watched the U.N. Security Council in session...
Died. Dr. George William Lewis, 66, longtime research director for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1924-47); of a heart ailment; in Lake Winola, Pa. As head of the world's greatest aeronautical research agency (serving U.S. plane builders and the armed forces), Dr. Lewis fathered major experimental laboratories at Langley Field. Va., Cleveland, and Moffett Field, Calif., guided a spate of new developments (in propellers, jet propulsion, wind tunnels, etc.), including revolutionary wing designs which cut "profile drag" (the main hindrance to flight efficiency) by about...
...there are crisp little grand-pères (doughballs cooked in a pot of maple syrup). In the Maritimes, there are lobsters and clam chowder, Annapolis Valley baked apple dumplings, and a sturdy pudding called blueberry grunt. On the prairies the great delicacy is smoked Winnipeg goldeye (a Canadian lake fish) done to a golden turn, and Vancouver brings forth huge meaty crabs from the icy waters of Boundary...
...Carnegie Lake, N. J., the University of California took high delight in dumping an old foe, favored Washington (TIME, July 5), in the Olympic crew tryouts. Then Coach Ky Ebright's Californians beat Harvard and Princeton in the U.S. Olympic finals. Next stop: the Thames River...
...between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial plots $1,000). Most amusing is the love of Mr. Joyboy, the senior mortician, and Miss Aimée Thanatogenos, his assistant, uttered in an American idiom which Author Waugh has not entirely mastered...