Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons, the Hampshire grounds about which Collingwood wrote are now the home of another Mediterranean commander-Cunningham. To it and the sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...
...spoke last week a man who loves the Navy much, who carries a lump of sea salt in his mouth. For Winston Churchill such a statement was a kind of concession. But it was one which he had to make. By last week the Army-especially the one right at home-was very much on the British mind. Defense against invasion was again the biggest concern...
Into the room came the first witness, a slender man whose shoulders stooped with 69 years, striding gravely in a worn, shiny blue serge suit, his hair silvery-white, his face pale as candle wax, his brown eyes a little sharp under his salt-&-pepper eyebrows. Little Sol Bloom scrambled down from his eminence to be photographed with Secretary of State Hull. Mr. Hull sat down, began to read his prepared statement, his long pale hands trembling slightly...
...sales on the New York Stock Exchange, but a sharp increase over 1939's 15,741 shares. Sales on Manhattan's Big Board last year were the smallest since 1921 (207,600,000 shares). Cleveland's volume was up 8% over 1939, Cincinnati up 11%, Salt Lake City up 22%. But the W. S. E.'s increase was 33%, best showing of any of the 20 registered exchanges in the U. S. Reason: of the 75,000-odd persons drawn to Washington by the defense program since last May, many are big-time manufacturers used...
...second Pan American Ski Championships, held during 1938, found the United States represented by Adams Carter, former Harvard ski captain; Robert H. Shaw, of Groton, Mass.; Edgar Bering, of Salt Lake City; Charles McLane, present Dartmouth College ski captain; Bob Blatt, of San Francisco; Martin Arrouge, of Reno, Nev.; and Norman H. Read, of New York City. This group successfully defended the team trophy but lost first place in individual honors to Eugenio Errazuriz, the captain of the Chilean Team...