Word: nason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's curt message said only that Nason Billings had died at sea, on one of those seagoing tugs that defy subs and storms to do rescue and salvage work. In a weather-beaten old house in a little Maine fishing village last week an oak-hearted old man sat down and scribbled a stout reply...
...three colleges are within eight miles of each other in Philadelphia's suburbs. Two of the three installed new presidents (both Rhodes Scholars) last autumn: Swarthmore, John William Nason, 36; Haverford, Felix Morley, 47, formerly editor of the Washington Post. With Bryn Mawr's scholarly President Marion Edwards Park, 65, they cooked Up a scheme to exchange teachers, books, students...
Elated by the plan's progress. President Nason observed that still greater economy and cooperation might be achieved if the three colleges had a single president, but that ideal was "not likely to be soon realized...
Pretty brainy, Radcliffe, Freshmen were asked their frank opinions on local topics in a regular Wednesday feature broadcast. Priscilla Nason removed the reputed stuffling from Harvard men's shirtfronts by declaring "they're just as manageable as fellows from any other college." Francine Bogart, who is French, liked Boston for its "European atmosphere...
...Major Leonard Nason charged last fortnight in a denunciatory book, Approach to Battle. "Dependence on pigeons as a means of signal communication," said he "is leaning on a broken reed." Week the book was published, Major Nason was ordered to active service...