Word: pewters
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...pewter beer stein with a clear crystal bottom, left on "Copey's" door mat 35 years ago this month, came home to 14 Plympton Street yesterday...
...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...
Larry Kuter (rhymes with pewter), a lean West Pointer ('27), looked like just the man to carry out the Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service...
...boarding house. The authorities of the New England Historical Society state that rumors had it that the place "was used as a fraternity house." Students who study Economics in 1946 may verify this by counting the pegs in the ceiling of the Economics room, pegs on which hung heavy pewter beer mugs...
When Brevet Major Thayer was named Superintendent of West Point in 1817, the 15 -year-old Academy was rotten with nepotism, sycophancy, bad teaching, worse discipline. When Thayer arrived, all the faculty was under arrest, and shambling, dictatorial Captain Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge was holding the post singlehanded...