Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Peck and Perry Royce hammered out home runs for the middies, each coming with two men aboard. Peck's blow came in the first frame and gave the victors a lead which they never lost. Lieutenant Commander Salmon and Professor Nilsson were the faculty's leading hitters. Also starring for the faculty was Professor Bursk, who was all over the field . . . and we mean that literally...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), A. J. Cronin's best-selling novel, will use Gary-Cooperish Stage Actor Gregory Peck as the Scottish missionary to China. Father Arthur O'Hara, a genuine missionary, will furnish technical advice. For release this summer...
...George C. Adams '44, of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...
...Epaphroditus Peck, export salesman for Chauncey Jerome, another pioneering clockmaker, taught the English an early lesson in Yankee underselling. British customs authorities seized his first shipment of clocks because they were invoiced at such a low price that it looked like fraud. Under British law, Mr. Peck received the amount of his invoice plus 10%, and the British Government sold his clocks while he settled comfortably in London to wait for another shipment. The British bit a second time, but by the time they gave up and let in his third shipment in orthodox fashion, the Jerome trade-mark...
center: Bob Peck, Pittsburgh...