Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bick's "Figures of Transition" is an intelligent and illuminating study of six English writers at the end of the last century whose work serves as a transition from the Victorian to the modern period in English literature. Mr. Hicks work is not doctrinaire and is thoroughly good . . . Joseph Wood Krutch's "The American Drama Since 1918," is a lively critical history of our drama since, approximately, Eugene O'Neill...
...Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...
...squad has been cut down to fifteen, and unfortunately there is no place to give seasoning to the men who had to be cut. There is no Jayvee team, and with its abolition last spring went its coach, Johnny Wood. The sacrifice in player talent has not been important but Fesler has his hands full with his enlarged Varsity squad every afternoon...
Lowell, which sent in a large number of reserves, was no match for a heavier, better-co-ordinating Winthrop team, which triumphed, 7 to 8. Playing most of the game for the victors were: Lacroix, Winsor, Fulton, Ayres, Wood, and Cunningham...
...this tragic eleventh week of World War II, the furtive nature of the new German offensive was suspected: mines laid by submarines in British coastal waters. By week's end, despite German denials, this was confirmed. Suspicion grew when a British destroyer, four British freighters (Matra, Ponzano, Wood-town, Pensilva) and a Danish steamer (Canada) all blew up in nearshore British waters. Certainly the British would not mine roadsteads used by their own ships. Nor could mines drifting loose from British defense fields be blamed since British mines are designed to become harmless after breaking away from their anchorages...