Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientific purpose of Mrs. Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
...classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains a concentratedly salty, not a feebly sour human being...
...dining students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...this sour note was concluded last week the experiments by the Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau...
...Sour cream on mornings...