Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hines Woodring of Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
Last week a deed was filed in Topeka, giving title to a piece of land 454 ft. wide and 180 ft. deep. The property ran almost up to the Woodring front porch and bisected the small lake. The buyer: Charles Rooney...
...interests which extend well beyond the dismal confines of Memorial and New Lecture Halls and Emerson D. He cuts quite a figure locally at the Cambridge Skating Club. But whenever his inquistional activities give him enough time off, he hurries north to his farm on the shores of Lake Winnesquam in New Hampshire to look after his fruit trees and worry about the roofing...
Somewhere over Greenland the giant Kee Bird lost its bearings, plunged down to a crash landing on a frozen lake. For three days the eleven-man crew sat it out, tapping out signals on a gasoline-powered radio. When a C-54 skimmed in for the rescue it was so cold that the pilot, Lieutenant Bobbie Joe Cavnar, never dared stop his engines...
...summer's day in 1911, a visitor who was bathing in his lake momentarily got out of her depth, screamed for help. Seventy-four-year-old Gilbert promptly swam out, and ordered: "Put your hand on my shoulder." She obeyed-and he sank like a stone. Only a short while before he had made one of his most typical-but most inaccurate-witticisms: "I fancy that posterity will know as little of me as I shall know of posterity...