Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolizes Dartmouth's reckless, bruising, headline-hunting attack, it is beefy defenseman George Pulliam. He also represents its weakness, if that's what you want to call it. Frequently, like a steam engine, the Indians do not function at peak efficiency, because their one and two-man attacks leave a lot of men standing around and their insistence on taking the puck up themselves rather than passing it up front consumes precious seconds...
...facts. Last year the Department of Houses and College Dormitories showed a surplus of $90,310.04, or almost $10,000 less than the $100,000 which the Houses "traditionally" pay to the faculty of Arts and Sciences. Add to this the increased cost of electric power and steam which follow from the rising price of coal, and last year's surplus is swallowed up, according to Massachusetts Hall estimates...
...choice, knew he had to get out in front at the ballot box as well. Any early setback in the GOPresidential sweepstakes might well prove fatal. Last week, on the heels of Harold Stassen's departure, the Dewey machine rumbled into New Hampshire under a full head of steam, aiming for the nation's first presidential primary on March...
...provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows by recreating in slacks), the-royal family planned to steam off to the U.S., then back to Europe...
...During the week, 270,000 workers were laid off because of fuel and power shortages-200,000 of them in Detroit alone. Rail, river and air transportation was badly disrupted. At subzero temperatures, locomotives were unable to keep up steam pressure. The Ohio River was frozen from shore to shore for the first time in twelve years. Storms at sea delayed the Queen Mary's arrival for two days. In Chicago, where Lake Michigan pilings were so heavily coated with ice that they looked like Sherman tanks (see cut), water-system intakes had to be unclogged with dynamite...