Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beat the Enemy. Spotted as an administrator by M.I.T.'s late President Karl T. Compton, he was appointed M.I.T.'s assistant to the president (1939), executive vice president (1943) and vice president (1945) during the World War 11 years in which M.I.T.'s staff of scientists and...
He never did. Instead, he shrewdly multiplied his fortune by investments (oil, real estate), spent hours avidly watching television. Last July, when he suddenly lost his oldtime pep, he dropped in at Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco for a checkup. The doctors first said it was anemia, then spotted...
The touchdown came in the last five minutes of play, when Lowell quarter back Dave Gessner spotted a defensive shift in the Eliot secondary, and called a quarterback sneak that netted 10 yards and a touchdown.
Red-Handed. In Detroit, Lawrence Mish was nabbed for turning in a false alarm from a newly painted fire box when a fireman spotted him trying to wipe red paint off his hands.
After a short wait they spotted the rocket arcing over the horizon at 6:09 a.m., and hailed it with hearty shouts of "Skoal" accompanied by numerous toasts. After the object had disappeared, the tutors returned to calculate the results of their observations. Some of the party, however, were unable...