Word: wilsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sore muscles were the main result of the morning's masculine melee, but in the afternoon Susan Wilson, an 18-year old Freshman from New Hampshire University, offered a sneaky fastball for three innings baffling a mixed nine which featured six comely outfielders...
...this time G.M. and the U.A.W. were not exchanging four-letter epithets. They were hard at work on a new kind of contract. To "the U.A.W.'s threat of a strike and demands which totaled 45? an hour, G.M.'s grey, forthright President Charles E. Wilson had thought up a surprisingly dulcet answer...
...only averted a strike; it had put Chrysler, Ford and many big parts makers on the spot. G.M. was looking ahead to the return of competitive selling, wanted no breaks in production. This week President Wilson announced that G.M. planned no price changes on its cars as the result of its new wage pattern...
Full Circle. Last week Fred Erwin Beal had come full circle. He returned to Gastonia to be restored to the U.S. citizenship he had lost. In the summer-hot courtroom he stood, a heavy-waisted man of 52, and told Judge Wilson Warlick earnestly: "I am one of the greatest foes of Communism in America. I would rather be an American prisoner than a free man in Russia...
...situations. Male fish of nest-building species chase other males off their premises. They welcome nubile females. To the human observer it looks as if they judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this, explains Professor N. Tinbergen in a recent Bulletin of the Wilson Ornithological Club, is giving them too much credit. Often all they see is a single characteristic of the approaching fish, which "releases" in them a train of automatic responses...