Word: trims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Daniel Leahy has served as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Navigation, had a hand in framing many a present-day naval policy. Spry and trim, he belies his 61 years, but the seams in his face are eloquent of years at sea. Navy men who admire his prodigious physical endurance swear that they are not exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains...
...these, Chauncey, who, however, marries the half-witted niece of a political boss to advance his career. (The other, John, marries an Australian girl.) Another grandson fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins practice as a dentist. The oldest granddaughter, Josie. a trim, efficient business girl, is having a secret love affair with her employer, marries him when his wife and daughter are killed in an automobile wreck. A younger granddaughter, Abbey, works as a schoolteacher, becomes a Communist, emigrates to Russia. Her twin brother, Louis, struggles against his homosexual impulses and becomes a school principal...
...Around a bend in the track near the Naperville, Ill. Country Club last week streaked Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.'s streamliner Zephyr. Down within 200 ft. above it swooped a trim red Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply...
...hand on Hobart's rolling Geneva campus were students, alumni, educators, to hear Hobart's 18th President solemnly inducted by Princeton's 15th President Harold Willis Dodds, like him the son of a Presbyterian minister. Still in oratorical trim after welcoming Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must...
...which will be contested next week on Ocober 12 along the River course, has been out for the last few days with a cold. By the time the meet rolls around, he'll be in there again, it is expected, but not in what can be officially declared fighting trim. Another casualty is George P. Gardner, who has come up from last year's Freshman team, which he captained, and is currently down with a bad case of blisters. It's still problematical whether he'll be ready for the Purple...