Word: ypsilantis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
Yale's varsity football lettermen yesterday unanimously elected as 1951 captain their 195-pound fullback and line-backer, Robert Spears, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Earlier in the day, Robert A. Hall, chairman of the Board of Athletic Control, released a '51 schedule which adds Bates, Navy, and Colgate...
Michigan. The Linguaphone Institute of America decided that this year the cities in which "sloppy speech" is most prevalent are Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago ("Most people sound like they are either being chased by gangsters or are running for trains"), Hollywood and Ypsilanti, Mich. Replied the Mayor of Ypsilanti: "Anyone who can even pronounce 'Ypsilanti' has a great command of the language...