Word: towed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Author Bissell, Bill Joyce had some fancy schooling and a well-to-do father. When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...
...kept in storage. If the catch is a big, vigorous, dangerous intruder (a honeybee or a grasshopper), the spider turns her back and squirts out silk in a broad band from all her 600 spinnerets. Only when the victim is trussed up and helpless in silken swathes does Aranea tow it away to the slaughterhouse...
Then, snubbed by Harvard, the bust moved to M.I.T., where it wound up on the steps of Tech's Walker Memorial Hall. There an art-loving janitor took it in tow, and presented it to puzzled M.I.T. officials, who had absolutely no idea where Charles Tallman came from, who he was, or what to do with...
...What Are Comets?" and "Did The Sun Stand Still" will be the subjects of the first tow College Observatory "Open Nights," Tuesday, April 25 and Thursday, April 27, at the Garden Street observatory...
...same dinner tow seniors were presented awards for their performances this season. Goalie John 'Chase was awarded the John Angler trophy for being "the most improved player." Shorty Minot, who played third line wing this year, received the John Tudor trophy for contributing "the best team spirit...