Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student of regional U.S. speaking habits, McDavid himself comes from South Carolina, and he has a purpose in all this random conversation. He is helping gather material for the multi-volume Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada which Philologist Hans Kurath is directing from the University of Michigan. The Atlas will trace lines of speech similarities ("isoglosses") on detailed sectional maps, and will take several more years to finish. Meanwhile, research already done on McDavid's beat provides a preview of the sort of thing the atlas-makers hope to do for the whole northern continent...
...York's Pioneer Club by 89 points, and Tulare watched, silent and worried. It roared alive when Bob took a lead next night. He kept in front, and Tulare went home happy and hoarse. Order of finish: Mathias (7,552 points), Mondschein (7,045), Bill Albans of North Carolina U. (6,715). Young Bob, also a crack baseball and football man who will enter Stanford next fall, had come closest yet to the A.A.U. record (7,880) set by 37-year-old Glenn Morris...
...ruling in a North Carolina divorce case (TIME, June 4, 1945), the court had left some 4,000,000 U.S. divorced persons facing-in the words of the dissenting Justice Black-possible "criminal prosecution and harassment." By the time the justices had threaded an uncertain way through the states' already mixed-up divorce laws there was, in the bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary...
...Their Knees. Some of them had a pretty exciting time. The crew of the Sinclair Refining Co.'s 17,229-ton tanker Sinco spent three wild days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
...rate man, Gordon Gray is an heir to part of the ripe, golden R. J. Reynolds tobacco (Camels) fortune. His father put young Gordon to work in the leaf houses and at the cigarette machines, but Gordon didn't like the tobacco business. At the University of North Carolina he was No. 1 in his class, and president of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he was an editor of the Law Journal. After a few years of practice as a lawyer in New York and Winston-Salem, he headed a group which bought the city's two lackluster...