Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remind patriots that the U. S. Frigate Constitution had served well against the Barbary pirates, the French, the British (in her most famous battle in the War of 1812 she reduced the lighter Guerriere to smoking smithereens). The poem saved the Constitution from the junk pile. From grog tub to untattered sails, she was still shipshape last week, afloat at the Boston Navy Yard and useful mainly for show to visitors. Similarly listed "in service, out of commission" until last fortnight was Constitution's contemporary, Constellation, stationed at Newport, R. I. and used to school embryo officers...
Long before the rest of the country was ready for war, undergraduate opinion at Harvard in the year 1916 had crystallized. Under the slogan Preparedness, the alma mater of tub-thumping Teddy Roosevelt rallied to arms, with a Harvard Regiment readily recruited and almost 1000 men receiving training at the outset...
...Increased construction boosted Crane Co.'s valve, toilet & tub sales, raised earnings for the year (ending June 30) to $5,722,830, against $2,013,655 last year...
...ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept in the tub, had to get up at 5 a.m. so that other boarders could take their showers...
Jesse Newlon, 58, is a great, rumbling tub of a man, a longtime spokesman for the left wing of U. S. teachers. Onetime president of the National Education Association, he helped found the now extinct leftish magazine Social Frontier, was a crony of famed Leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. An inveterate signer of manifestoes for a new social order, Dr. Newlon has always called himself a liberal, still does. Last week he presented his colleagues with a large dish of crow...