Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor standards, instead of Edelman: Harrison Clayton Hobart, 64, an assistant grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and a self-styled "rock-ribbed Republican." ¶For Assistant Secretary (international labor affairs): Spencer Miller Jr., 62, adult-education specialist, president of the union-sponsored International University in Springfield. Mass...
Issued through the office of Allan Knight Chambers, professor of Theology at the Boston University school of Theology, the statement was signed by faculty members at Harvard, Radcliffe, Northeastern, Springfield, American International, Andover-Newton Theologies school and other Massachusetts institutions...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
...father wanted him to become a lawyer, and the geologist uncle, then president of the university, urged him to be a geographer. But Atwood decided on a newspaper career, went to work first for the Worcester Telegram and Evening Gazette and later for the Illinois State Journal in Springfield...
While he was in Springfield, his mother wrote to suggest that he look up a young lady who was doing social work there. She was the daughter of the man who had succeeded Atwood's uncle as president of the Bank of Alaska. Atwood decided he had better things to do with his time. Later his mother moved to Springfield, saw to it that her son met the young lady by inviting her to dinner. Atwood decided that he hadn't had better things to do after all, married her a few months later...