Word: loon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following excerpts from "De Loon's Practical Guide to the Passing on of Knowledge," by the late Hadley Warner De Loon (1883-1968), Jane Thunderbolt Professor of Arts and Crafts, are here reprinted as a public service. We have long suspected the existence of such a document, but only recently came into its possession--after a fruitful journey through the De Loon family crypt. Not wishing to shake the Harvard community unduly, we propose to break the contents of this remarkable work over a series of installments, of which today's is merely the first...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...
...crisis loomed as workmen at New Hampshire's Loon Mountain ski area found what they thought was steam escaping from the side of the mountain. They reported the phenomenon to the resort's general manager, Sherman Adams, 69, onetime assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower and an old hand at dealing with volcanic pressures. Adams investigated and found a hibernating bear in a cave. "I'll flush him out in the spring," said Sherm...
...spite of the fact that the Minnesota state bird is the loon, it would probably be mere appropriate for Vice President Humphrey to order that 20-lb. turkey for Richard Nixon and a nice juicy crow for himself...
...danger in launching a trial bal loon is that the balloonist may get caught up in the mooring cables and carried aloft. Just that sort of aerial accident befell Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and his Bulgarian allies last week...