Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's spry, horse-loving Baron Portsea was born 82 years ago on the little island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. All the members of his family live there now, with 50,000 other British subjects, under Nazi overlords. They have slim pickings: no salt, jam, sweets. The potato crop goes largely to France. Coffee is made from parsnips...
...picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats...
Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship to Samuel D. Thurman Jr., of Salt Lake City, Ut.; LL.B. Stanford...
...pangs grew sharper, the sailors rigged a piece of canvas across the center of the boat, against the breaking waves. In the darkness Dr. Conly fumbled with the meager equipment of the lifeboat's first-aid kit-hemostats, scissors, gauze, iodine, aspirin, all drenched in salt water. He had had no chance to grab his instruments before his ship went down...
...henequen, sisal, and every other known western fiber but sansevieria, which grows wild in Cuba, lack the resistance to salt water that makes abacá a naval necessity. Moreover, while it takes only four months to get a usable hemp crop, it takes three years to produce sisal, five to seven years for henequen. And low world prices for jute and abacá have kept Hemisphere acreage...