Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing so meagre as the score, however, can serve to give a true measure of the CRIMSON's superiority which had the Hanoverians digging their noses into the sod again and again, until the once green playing field resembled a veritable pea patch. At the end of the game it was only the mercy of the winners, and the end of their large supply of spirits, that staved off complete humiliation of the Green...
...great day came last week, but thick clouds spoiled the fun for much of the eastern U.S. Astronomers, forewarned, had readied more precise instruments than the earthbound human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality; 1899-Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum, Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When...
...edition of Brave New World (Harper, $2.50; 311 pp.), Novelist Huxley casts a cold eye over his fantasy, firmly classes it among "the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth." It is now too late, says Author Huxley, to try and "patch up" Brave New World; all that can be done is to investigate its conclusions. Some fresh findings...
...normal jet cruising speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...