Word: placidness
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This evening at 7 o'clock at the Skating Club, the team meets Cambridge Latin. If then faces a stiff schedule, including Andover and Exeter, both of whom were at Lake Placid during the Christmas holidays. Dewey, realizing that most of the teams he plays are well ahead in experience, intends to concentrate on a hard-checking, defensive type of hockey...
...theory which he last week presented. He believes that the sun, like hundreds of "novae" (exploding stars) which astronomers have studied, lost its balance, figuratively speaking, some two or three billion years ago and blew up, hurling out planetary material before subsiding to its smaller and comparatively placid state of today...
After tonight's game with Boston University at the Arena, the team will take a well earned rest until after Christmas. Then on December 27 it will leave for a non-league three-game "social series" with Princeton at Lake Placid...
...decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
After eccentric, peg-legged Colonel Edward H. R. ("Ned") Green, son of fabulous old Miser Hetty Green, died at 67 in Lake Placid, N. Y. two Junes ago, the U. S. Government collected taxes of $17,520,987 on his $36,137,335 net estate. Four States-as well as his wife and sister-also commenced a fearsome tangle of litigation for their shares (TIME, April...