Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...
...Founder of Lucchese Boot Co., famed throughout the Southwest for its cowboy boots...
...they picked was 44-year-old Walter Stoke, a mild-mannered political scientist who has been president of the University of New Hampshire since 1944. The son of a Methodist minister, Walter Stoke spent most of his boyhood in the Southwest (he picked cotton in Texas), was schooled in the Midwest and went to New England for his first major academic job. At N.H.U., he allowed students their first effective self-government, persuaded the state legislature to boost his university's appropriation...
...best. But it has one great advantage: it is small, compact, set off by lagoons and gently rolling lawns, and is easily accessible by foot, bus, trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant race as they are this season, Lincoln Park has bigger crowds than Wrigley Field; its 1947 attendance will probably hit 3,000,000-a new high...
...more distraction for the aspiring summer scholar will be the temptation to indulge in sidewalk engineering at the southwest corner of the Yard, where the ground was broken last week for construction of the new $1,500,000 Lamont Undergraduate Library...