Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relay, stylish Wes Flint will take a shot at the high hurdles. Last Saturday in the K. of C. meet at 45 yards, Wes ran several big men into the boards and just missed beating out Ted Sparrow for second place. Saturday he will meet virtually the same blue-ribbon field, but he will compete over the longer 60-yard route, which he prefers...
What we all felt, knowing the resolute Swiss temperament in moments of emergency, was simply that the U.S. Legion of Merit ribbon would look sort of nice on those grey-green Swiss uniforms...
...helps her husband tend their ten-acre fruit farm, keep their unpainted frame house pin-neat, still finds time to collect stamps, grow prize wheat and corn. Thirty-five years in the Canadian West have greyed her hair but never dimmed her ardor for blue-ribbon awards. Since 1934, the wheat and corn she planted between the trees in her husband's apple orchards have won 40 prizes in U.S. and Canadian shows...
...brain center of U.S. Army air power. Some of their names were still secret, but among them are men like 1) thin, nervous Dr. Alexander Lippisch, butterfly collector, landscape painter, lute player, and designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane, 2) blond, ruddy Dr. Hans Heinrich, inventor of the ribbon parachute, 3) Russian-born Dr. Eugen Ryschkewitsch, world authority on heat-resisting ceramics. Other new workers at Wright Field: German aerodynamicists, wind-tunnel men, instrument men and experts on all the complexities of modern aviation...
...bare legged "Cliffsters yielded not so much as a hair ribbon for three periods. Desperate in the closing minutes of the struggle, the quarterback of the Charles River Chargers called a squeeze play on the next pitch. The center was low and outside and in the shower roam he said it was the "Christmas Night" perfume of the Radcliffe left tackle that made him score a touchdown in the wrong end song...