Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...
...local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc, brass, etc.) and under...
...rooms of the Varsity Club include recreation facilities such as ping-pong tables, magazines and newspapers. Living quarters are also available for the use of student members and graduates. The club thus serves as a social and recreational center for its members during their lifetime...
...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...
...Fortress was weeks away by foot, and no plane had ever landed intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap. Parunak and Balchen, in a PBY flying boat, surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again...