Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jefferson, Wigglesworth Hall (completing the "cloistering" of the Yard), the Faculty Club, and the mammoth Indoor Athletic Building--all were under way, and some ready to be opened. But the center of attraction remained a cluster of neo-Georgian structures along the river--Lowell's new Houses. In late September, the President conducted a press tour of the newly opened Dunster and Lowell. The latter's first High Table was held soon after, and things went up from there...
...biggest news of the year, to some, was the resumption of athletic relations with Princeton, except for football--after a lapse of four and a half years. And in late February, a Boston morning paper ran a story claiming that President Lowell was planning to resign--a story branded as "unsubstantiated" but before long proved correct...
...that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes off to testify about something or other at Old Bailey, but the case gets clearer when he checks out a lead on the late inspector's lady friend. On her premises he gets a fluke chance to catch the main man with cash in hand. And so on until well after midnight, when the chief inspector arrives home at last -coat torn, temper frayed, and bloody well ready for a little appreciation. "George...
...Miller, Pan American's Atlantic Division chief pilot, who has made 82 crossings in the 707: "This plane has had fewer mechanical problems than any other new plane in the postwar era." The adjustments of the plane's shakedown period have inevitably led to delayed flights and late arrivals. But the grind on passengers' nerves has not been so much the fault of the 707 as of the airlines' frequent failure to explain the trouble to inconvenienced, irritated and wondering passengers...
...schooling of hunting birds and beasts (Falconry, White insists, "is not a hobby or an amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned...