Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizen Flamm then announced that he has devised an "invisible torpedo," that is to say, one which leaves no tell-tale wake of air bubbles. Many a ship was saved during the War when its lookouts spotted the wake of an approaching torpedo and the wheel was instantly spun to swerve the ship. With an "invisible" torpedo-presumably one propelled by some other means than compressed air-the first warning of attack would be the actual explosion of the torpedo...
Fielding told his story simply to his gaping audience. "The six of us, three ushers in Public theatres, two in R-K-O theatres, and one of the Fox company, wake at, six each morning after six hours sleep and eat. Our daily bill of fare never changes: two dozen eggs, three quarts of milk, two cans of soup, and a loaf of bread. We run fifty miles each day, sleeping never on a bed and generally in an R-K-O theatre. At noon and at ten in the evening we have an hour for recreation when...
Musical: EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SWEET ADELINE, HEADS UP!, SONS of GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, WAKE UP AND DREAM, SIMPLE SIMON (Ed Wynn...
...Washington & Lee, last week, people were getting used to a new president, Francis Pendleton Gaines, who has been chief executive of Wake Forest (N. C.) College for the last three years. President Gaines was likewise getting used to W. & L. and its 181-year traditions. Not far from his new house lie the bones of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee, Princetonian, Revolutionist, and his heroic son Robert E. Lee (W. & L.'s eighth president), and his grandson George Washington Custis Lee (W. & L.'s ninth president...
Like any other innovation designed to bring about an improvement in the existing social order, the establishment of the House Plan at Harvard may be relied upon to carry in its wake something more than a group of spic and span Georgian dormitories. Whether Harvard men like it or not, the new buildings by the Charles are symbols of change and of a new chapter in the history of the College. With the opening of the first two units next fall it will be possible to determine with some degree of accuracy the direction in which the wind is blowing...