Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon had a champion's string of firsts. She was the first modern battleship of basic U.S. design; the first major warship built on the West Coast (San Francisco's Union Iron Works, 1896). But her great claim to fame was that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have...
Twice Harvard with four straight victories has been on the verge of success, but its string was broken in both classes in the following. Last winter, the team took the championship from Yale where it had been for two seasons...
...experience parallels in many respects that of the disgusted officer. Hired as a -Name withheld by request. fireman to safeguard the ship against welders' sparks, I consider myself valuable for about 20% of the working day. . . . Workmen string out the hours exchanging stories, sneaking smokes, sizing up jobs and bumping noggins. A passing boat or plane apparently justifies time off to estimate cargo, judge tonnage and type, etc., etc. . . . Recently, having sighted no sparks from welding operations atop a gun platform, I investigated to find a six-man crap game in hot progress. Most explanations revert to a common...
...doubleheader on the hottest day of the year, Hemsley got five hits in eight times up. For the next five games in a row, he hit safely. By last week's end, bench-riding Buddy Rosar realized he was no longer the Yankee's first-string catcher. He sighed: "I did it for protection. Baseball is my meat and drink now, but no one can say when I'll go out there and meet with an accident that might end my baseball days...
...with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native and foreign celebrity. But the most popular and interesting character was Aurelia Reinhardt herself...