Word: wil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
...Morgan went to the rail, smiled, said: "No, not even one minute." Thus he exposed himself to Photographer Wil letts. Then he heard the shutter snap and, now not smiling, fled along the deck...
...wil be chosen as a result of competition which will end shortly before the Club leaves Cambridge for its annual spring trip. The winner will become manager during the season of 1932-33 and the second man will assume the office during the following year. The selections will be based on the performance of the competitors in work involving preparation for the spring trip and local concerts. The winner will accompany the Club on the vacation tour which will start on April 11 and end on April...
...money. Each Woodward school is to be built at least 15 miles from the nearest town each will enroll up to 200 youths. They must be U. S.-born sons of U. S.-born or British-blooded parents. Students will enter between the ages of 12 and 18; preference wil be given to those who plan to take a full course of high school and college work. All the teachers must be northerners (to show Alabamans that damyankees are little different from themselves). There will be no formal grades or rating by classes, no foreign language instruction, no graduation exercises...
...taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment to native or British-blooded whites, was that isolation and a common background would give his youths a better chance to study, his schools a better chance to succeed. First two school wil be started on farm lands included in the foundation. In charge is a board of trustees, all of them Mr. Woodward's close friends. Should they decided 25 years hence that the schools are not successful, the foundation will be divided between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Woodward's alma...