Word: welds
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Philip Saltonstall Weld 36 a former newspaper publisher who contributed generously to Harvard in past years and who also held a solo sailing record, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack in the Square. He was 69 years...
Only four years ago Weld crossed the Atlantic alone in only 18 days, breaking the record for the 3000-mile. Plymouth, England-to-Newport, Rl race by more than two days...
...Weld gave $1 million in 1982 for an endowed professorship in atmospheric chemistry bearing his name. David W. Johnson' 68 of the University's development office said yesterday...
Criticisms and arguments on American manners are among the nation's oldest traditions. As early as 1795, a would-be colonist named Isaac Weld went to live in the New World and then returned to England complaining of Americans that "civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible with freedom." By the time Frances Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth...
...head off suits -and injuries-by telling customers about defects. Says Chief Counsel Philip Knox: "We had recalls long before there was a Product Safety Act." In the 1960s, for example, the company recalled a children's swing set, informing all buyers by certified mail of a weak weld...