Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wives & Machines. The rush of aerial development passed Orville. He built himself a laboratory in Dayton, spent his time puttering in it. After 1918 he rarely flew. He had fractured a hip in an early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support...
...immediately demonstrated a genius for bad public relations. He banned a broadcast by 160 boys & girls from the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. The press reacted as though he had burned off their heads with an acetylene torch; Congress and the Justice Department jostled each other in their rush to investigate him. He plunged on, hauled the nation's big symphony orchestras into the union, and with them artists like Iturbi, Spalding and Zimbalist. "They're mine," he cried. "What's the difference between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern...
Opportunities for summer jobs in camps and resorts throughout the country are waiting for takers at the Student Employment Office in Weld Hall, the Office announced yesterday as it issued an early call to students who want to do their job-hunting before the rush. Lists of available positions at the University agency are compiled through the year, and form the basis for the summer work of most undergraduates who want vacation-like jobs...
Height tipped the initial victories into the Freshman's laps, but then came B.C. Yardling long shots went wild, and long, lumbering legs were not enough to smuggle the quintet under the tight opponent's defense. A sorry lack of rush in the freshman offense became obvious in this tearful Garden debut...
Swanny's Good Food has been doing a rush business between 12 and 2 o'clock. Undergraduates descend on the establishment at midnight and, ignoring juke box and waitresses, gobble a snack and leave. Joe, who forgot his last name years ago, waxed philosophical over the good business with "students can't live on print alone, and I'm glad they...