Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield...
...High on a bamboo scaffolding, pudgy, white-haired August Ferdinand Schmiedigen, 66-year-old boss architect of Haiti's International Exposition, dangled a stone on the end of a long string. Then, having shown his sweating black masons that their wall was not plumb, he hopped down to take a rest. "I've never worked so hard in my life," he gasped...
...Codes. The more progressive school boards that do look for new designs are often hampered by outmoded building codes. Some states still insist that windows be placed only on one wall. Regulations for ceiling heights, says the FORUM, are often "predicated on ventilating theories proved erroneous...
...building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on Park Ave., Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, grande dame of Manhattan's social world, will, in effect, be one of Connie Hilton's new landlords...
...just as hard as getting up. FREDERICK L. DUNN '51 (left) demonstrates the easy way--if you don't mind feeling like the heroine of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight." The technique is called "rapelling." Dunn wraps the rope around various parts of his body and slides down the wall in ten-feet bounds. Physics concentrators who note how the original potential energy is conserved during the descent will appreciate the one big drawback to rapelling...