Word: winton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinecure, first established in 1351. Its traditional duties involve managing royal estates, making local appointments to the tune of a couple of hours a week. Former holders: Winton Churchill (1915), Sir Oswald Mosley...
...fiercely competitive U.S. automobile industry, an ailing company seldom gets a chance for a comeback. The industry's history is studded with once famous names (Hupmobile, Chandler, Peerless, Winton, Pierce-Arrow, etc.) which went under. Nine years ago it looked as if Hudson were limping down the same rocky road to dissolution...
Social Sciences: Mary Lou Bensley 2G, Elizabeth P. Clark 1G, Robert G. Layer 2G, Bruno J. Palmer-Poroner 1G, Janet Reinertson 2G, Andrew E. Rice 1G, O. Glenn Saxon 1G, J. Schachter 1G, Winton U. Solberg 1G, Richard N. Swift 1G, Jackson Toby 1G, Warren Wilhelm...
Most nostalgic note in the book: an exchange of letters between Melvin Hall's father and the Winton (automobile) Corporation, circa 1898: "Dear Mr. Winton: I am now in possession of my horseless carriage, which is giving me fine service. There is one feature, however, which disturbs me, and that is the question of repair of . . . puncture...
...Dear Mr. Winton: I appreciate that the tires are made of real rubber five-eighths of an inch thick. . . . But I might run over a railway spike or something else that would pierce even their tough resistance. In such case, what should I do? No one [in Vermont] can suggest how a repair might be effected...