Word: tote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...represented a meeting of two adventurous minds-his and the President's. Only three weeks before, Henry Kaiser had laid on the White House desk the plans for wholesale merchantman-into-carrier conversion. Many an old-fashioned Navy man frowned: slow, small carriers (flight deck: 514 ft.) tote few planes, often must catapult them when there is no strong wind to help. And the pros felt no certainty that the small flat tops, even in droves, would be the answer to the U-boat...
...play this year, and the U.S. Golf Association believes there will be enough conditioned golf balls to go round. Links-men were further encouraged by reports last week that in England golf is enjoying one of its greatest seasons. There players hike to the links from the railroad station, tote their own clubs, get along with dingy sticks and a limit of two battered balls per round, play over fairways shorn by grazing sheep. Despite such hardships, British courses are jammed to the 19th hole every weekend...
...word tote worthies at Harvard: we leave you now for parts more or less unknown, but our places will be taken soon by others, this time one hundred and fifty strong. If they get half the cordial welcome we got we're sure they will leave Cambridge with as happy an impression as we have now. In our two and a half months here many things have happened to all of us personally, as well as to us as a group. We've tried to say our good-byes to most of our friends, but for those we've missed...
...fans can watch the paddock odds-board while feeding. For the Hipódromo's customers Architect Sloan has shown even more consideration. The club's eight oval bars and four restaurants all face the track so that customers can watch the races as well as the tote board...
...their double duties. They take along winter's skis and snowshoes, boots and parkas, ski wax and sleeping bags, summer's saddles and harness, light uniforms and raincoats. Out-of-season equipment is stored at a main base, the rest taken into the field. No other troops tote so much...