Word: loring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunners win their medals by shooting the enemy out of the air. In a story released last week in Air Force (official service journal of the A.A.F.), the Army told how one gunner rang the gong by using his wits and the lore he had learned in radio school...
...exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand lore and lies from every personality of the ring, and traveled 150,000 miles, including 13 trips to Europe for boxing news...
...Russians Kiev was the "mother of cities," Russia's ancient capital, a venerated center of history and lore, a beloved and lovely spot. From Kiev, Slav buccaneers sailed on their raids to ancient Byzantium, down the Dnieper and across the turbulent Black Sea. A thousand years ago, Kiev's ruler, Prince Vladimir, was baptized in the sluggish Dnieper, made Kiev the heart of Russia's Greek Orthodox faith. When Berlin was still a muddy village, Kiev's famed Petchersky Monastery was green with...
...Bird Lore. In Boston, Arthur J. Orner, missionary to Rhodesia, reported that the migratory storks which usually returned to Germany from South Africa had refused to go home this year...
...academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...