Word: pips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John English, also of the Herald, ventured to go out on a limb for the Crimson. "It will be timing and precision that will make the Harvard line superior, though Dartmouth has the better backfield. Frost is my favorite. He's a pip. It will be a very close game." Score, Harvard 7, Dartmouth...
...defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated by private industry, owned by the Government. Du Pont had signed one like it last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more than a laboratory basis...
...happen again, the U. S. turned its back on $155,000,000 of Government investment in powder mills, sold out what it had built, and pocketed less than $15,000.000 in salvage. Result: when World War II came along, 21 years later, it had no more than a pip-squeak powder capacity, could not today come close to meeting its own wartime demand for powder for guns, large or small...