Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years old tradition of graduate coaches went by the boards last Saturday as Yale named Iowan Emerson W. "Spike" Nelson head football coach to succeed Raymond "Ducky" Pond and gave Nelson a free hand in forming a new grid staff...
...Pond's first lieutenant Earl "Greasy" Neale resigned a few weeks ago, and the status of the rest of the Yale grid mentors is uncertain. Nelson is free to purge the staff at will, but apparently lie must make some kind of a showing in short order. He was given a one-year verbal contract...
...quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini's "pond." At no point did the British encounter any Italian resistance...
...alibi was the machine-tool industry. It too began the year as a little industry, and though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry...
...true measure of Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel...