Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
When Jamison Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper's fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free...
Though great efforts are being made to increase set production, Britain seems clearly distanced by U.S. television. Even the wretched U.S. television commercials are signs of a prosperity that British television does not and may never enjoy...
...years, Harvard College had never seen a smarter bunch of boys. Last week, the college reported that 35% of the 1948 enrollment had made the Dean's List (B averages or better) compared to 26% during the '30s. Furthermore, only 2%, instead of the usual 5%, had had their "connections severed"(Harvardese for being kicked out of school...
...Fishy Sound. Dieckmann had a hunch that Diderot had never really destroyed the manuscript of his great philosophical dialogue, D'Alembert's Dream, though one contemporary declared that Diderot had burned it and another said he had torn it up. "The whole thing sounded fishy to me," says Dieckmann...