Word: withington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOTHROP WITHINGTON...
...more than a week, Lothrop Withington's freshmen friends had been calling him a fool, a liar and worse. Well, he could swallow a live goldfish if he wanted to, and that was all there was to it. $10 said he couldn...
...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...
...overheat the tail. Designers moved the engines to the underside of an enlarged tail. That, in turn, enabled them to increase the area of the pivoting wing so that the plane could take off and land more slowly and silently. With that, said Boeing SST Engineering Director H. W. Withington last week, "Lockheed no longer has us beaten, as it thought it did last year." Replied Lockheed President Daniel J. Haughton: "The race will be close...
...also discovered something else--the art of starting from scratch. Scratch was his first junior varsity football game. He managed to center the ball back 39 feet and in the process, hit the fullback, Lothrop Withington Jr. '40, in the head. "Dietz has a great memory of his captain coming up to his locker," Dietz says (he often affects the third person), "and telling him he would be one of the six men who would not make the junior varsity trip to Yale...