Word: spear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...
...manager of the local delicatessen Jack Spear said last night that his establishment will not fly another aerial welcome mat unless one of the two stolen is returned. However, he has posted another reward of $50 in hopes that the thieves will bring at least one balloon back...
Ancient Camp. Last week a small expedition, led by white-haired Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, was pocking the hill with carefully dug excavations. Working with trowels and brushes in 100° heat, they turned up spear points, grinding stones and the charcoal of ancient fires. Their prize find: a piece of human thigh bone. Curator Harrington believes that the site was inhabited seasonally by 300 to 400 people about 10,000 years...
Also, Christopher Holabird, Robert Andrew Klein, Frederick Francis Lamont, Jr., Henry Lee, Jr., Joseph Anthony Lewis, Robert Stanley Leventhal, Charles Lipton, William Kennedy Boone Middendorf, William Lawrence Salton- stall, Charles Howard Sammond, Jr., Gerald Sanford Spear, Harold Samuel Spear, Arthur Frederick Stake, Edward Webster Dann Stevens...
...Valhalla. In the wings, a huge Siegfried, mounted on a ladder, sagged his 230 Ibs. down onto waiting shoulders to be borne on stage. "I'm getting too fat for this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. A warrior-god charged into musty corners, looking for his sword; bored spear carriers fumbled through a prop basket full of hunting horns. Behind the backdrop a ragged army of stagehands lounged on the rocks of the Rhine (out of use for the moment), gulping coffee from paper cartons and jeering at a stableboy who was trying to direct a sorrel horse...