Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home from Paris went Britain's top soldier, General Viscount Gort, who had "visited" French Chief of Staff General Maurice Gamelin; while in London French Air Minister Guy La Chambre paid his respects to British Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. Early July 1914 saw no events more ominous...
...ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
...corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball as "the set of dishes." A pitcher easy for a particular batter to hit is that batter's "cousin." A hard hitter "lays the wood to it." Base runners are "ducks on the pond...
Died. Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 73, inventor of many improvements in modern printing presses, and first president of the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers; of a streptococcic infection; in Manhattan...
High Jump--Won by C. H. Wood '41, 6 ft. (5 ft., 6 in.); Broad Jump--Won by N. J. Young '42, 21 ft., 8 1-4 in. (19 ft., 2 1-4 in.); Polo Vault--Won by S. Brooks '42, 14 ft. (11 ft., 6 in.); Shot Put--won by G. A. Downing '40, 48 ft., 6 1-2 in.; Javelin--Won by H. Kent '39, 169 ft., 4 in. (144 ft., 4 in.); Discus--Won by G. A. Downing '40, 127 ft., 7 in.; Hammer--Won by T. T. White...