Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make its point, The Clearing House sent out copies of the old exam to teachers from York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third...
...Quite There. In Springfield, Ohio, resourceful Contractor Julius N. Marcinko had trouble with a key that wouldn't fit, finally got in through the basement window and laid a tile floor in the kitchen of the wrong house. In Nashville, Tenn., a woman had a neat, small house constructed, then discovered that the lot she owned was down the street...
...Sphinx of Springfield," cried Dr. Tansill, wagging a lean finger in the general direction of a bust of Lincoln (which stared sadly south), played "fast and loose" with Southerners "in order to trick them into a bombardment of that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
Jean-Paul Barricelli. Cleveland; Stanley Vergil Baum, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Wilbur Arnold Cowett, Springfield; Reger Lamont Creighton, Belmont; Sumner Lee Feidberg, Newton; Irvin Milton Horowitz, Elizabeth, N. J.; James Murray Howe IV, Clearwater, Fla; Hugh Montgomery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Whitson Makamic Overdash, Jr., Springfield, Tenn.; Armand Schwab, Jr., New York City; Charles William Stuart Talt, Roxbury; James Walter Warwick, Toledo, Ohio...
...Durochers' home in West Springfield, Mass, was just a few blocks from the roundhouse where Leo's railroading father worked. It was a self-respecting if tough neighborhood. Of French descent, Leo went to St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. But two years as an altar boy did not soften him noticeably. At 17, Leo was the best pool shot in town (though his habit of talking to his opponent while the latter was lining up a shot was not considered ethical), and the brassiest guy on the Wico Electric Co. baseball club...