Word: overcoat
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When a Harvard football player is injured, Captain Bobby Green signals the bench, and a large man in a black overcoat comes running onto the field, few of the thousands in the stands realize that the big fellow is Dr. Augusts Thorndike '19, and that he is head surgeon of a marvelously efficient Hygiene Dept. clinic for Crimson athletes, centered in Dillon Field House...
Last week, Track Wizard Toole told his listeners to use the money they won on his tips to buy an R. B. $16.75 suit or overcoat. To each of these purchasers the sales clerk gave a silver dollar to be dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading...
...likely to be told whenever U. S. physicists and astronomers get together socially or professionally, but only to very young scientists because all the older ones know it. Today, prankish Dr. Wood is a hale old man with a fine pink skin and clear blue eyes, who scorns an overcoat on the coldest days and goes about like a college boy, with garterless socks drooping over his shoes. He is full of years and honors, and more cognizant of the latter than of the former. But he was 70 last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement at that age. This...
Three o'clock the next morning his overcoat and hat were turned in at the Charles River Basin police station, reputedly found on the subway bridge. Monday, February 7, the body was found floating in the ice chop a half mile below the bridge...
Conversely, there is no apparent reason for a crime. It was not robbery for money was found on his person and a watch was left untouched in the overcoat. Several factors are left to work on, however. There were reports current at the time that a flight had been seen on the bridge shortly before the coat was discovered; investigation is still in progress to clear up this point...