Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Man." World War II brought changes. The U.S. established an airport (Roberts Field, now not in use) and a seaplane base at Fisherman's Lake.* President Tubman, an energetic, intelligent lawyer, now works tirelessly to carry out social and technological reforms. He champions the natives against the frock-coated, white-helmeted elite of Americo-Liberians, to whom he is known as "That Man in the Executive Mansion...
...legend goes that Fisherman's Lake was created centuries ago when doves, tired by a long flight, sank down at evening and started to scratch the moist soil. They found water, and at last the lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
Scene of the hunt for 20-year-old heiress Anne Straw, missing from her Holderness, N. H., country home for ten days, switched from the bottom of Squam Lake yesterday to here in Cambridge...
...biggest job is in the south-east corner of the Yard, where three steam shovels are still excavating for the new undergraduate library. Hindered in their efforts by the recent rainstorms which transformed the pit into a small sized lake, the workmen expect to complete excavation within two weeks...
William L. Putnam '45 and David Michael, Jr. '48, returned to Tatla Lake in the northwest Canadian province to relate how Shiverick, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, had been caught with three companions in a slide on July 22 in the so-called Scimitar glacier, some 150 miles northwest of Vancouver...