Word: stubbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was some talking going on, but it was very spasmodic. Someone three seats down on my right would say, "Stub Pearson sure is getting knocked flat on his back, Mike, ain't he." (I figured him for the New York, Times). Then from all around would come an answering chorus of affirmative grunts, and the baldish gent on my left would grab in front of me for the binoculars of the man on the right and stare down at the field for a long minute and then add his own assent with a tardy lackadaisical "Yeah...
Captain Franny Lee of the Crimson eleven and Captain Stub Pearson of the Redmen will attend the dinner as guests of honor...
...third day a strange monster flew into the field, rocking and pitching like an aerial rowboat. It was a DC-2, with a DC2 wing strapped to its belly, stub end first, both ends cambered into an awkward streamline by sheets of plywood...
Coach Ozzie Cowles will start one Senior, three Juniors, and one Sophomore against the Crimson. Stub Pearson, last Fall's football captain, will captain the basketball five from his guard position. Playing beside him will be Stan Skaugh with Jim Olsen at center, and George Munroe and Sophomore Bob Meyers at forward...
...last week, a stub-winged, twin-motored monoplane darted off the Glenn L. Martin Airport near Baltimore, cut the sky at 340-360 m.p.h., landed for checkups by Martin engineers and Army Air Corps observers. It was one of the Army's (and the R. A. F.'s) latest and best bets for air war: the Martin B-26 medium bomber. From two electrically twirled turrets and from fuselage blisters a dozen machine guns bristled-twice the number on such U. S. planes before World War II taught its lesson of more firepower...