Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded...
Amid the clutter on his statehouse desk, Ohio's new Governor Michael V. (for Vincent) DiSalle keeps a framed motto attributed to the late Herbert Bayard Swope: i CANNOT GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR SUCCESS, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU THE FORMULA FOR FAILURE-TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY...
After long months of tolerance, the House Patronage Committee grew weary of the lowly paper-folder on the House office staff (salary: $4,000 a year) who had been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
...Stoneham smiled broadly. "This is a real team," he said. "We'll be there all the way this season, and if we win it, there may be no stopping us for five years to come." Nobody seemed to mind that the Giants eventually dropped the game on a late-inning homer by Boston's Frank Malzone...
Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...