Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew up to the silvery dirigible Los Angeles which had been idling aloft all day, and attached itself, exchanged messages, detached, glided back to the Saratoga-first time such a feat had been attempted over the ocean...
Penetrating descriptive force is Author Hazard's on occasion. "He had one of those retreating chins which is nevertheless determined; his teeth turned in, the kind of mouth people have who are afraid to step out and fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...
Alternate medals in this competition have been awarded to Philip Henry Cohen '32, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Charles Francis Elliott '31, of Holly Springs, Georgia; Wilbur Ellis Esber '31, of Canton, Ohio; Frederick Charles Fiechter Jr. '32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John Francis Harding '30, of Pittsfield; David Demarest Lloyd '31, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Armistead Buckner Rood '31, of Concord; and Francis Beattie Thurber '30, of New York. These medals were also given to the manager, James Stanley Jennison '30, of Cambridge, and to his assistant Justin Robert Wolf '32, of Omaha, Nebraska...
Well did Mrs. Hoover know that the voice was that of her son Herbert, radio engineer, describing over a nation-wide hook-up the Army's final air maneuvers above San Francisco from a giant Fokker...
...East Entry--A. L. Devens 1 Middle Entry--W. M. Dunn 35 West Entry--T. H. Culhane 50 HAMILTON A Entry--L. M. Abbott A-24 B Entry--D. Sweeney B-22 C Entry--S. Frame C-13 D Entry--A. Royse D-23 HOLLIS North Entry--W. E. Hook 30 South Entry--W. W. Ryan 3 HOLWORTHY East Entry--B. Barnes Middle Entry--H. P. Minis West Entry--C. M. Dunlap 99 BRATTLE STREET C. W. Lowry D. E. Mann 5 LINDEN STREET Whole house--Potter Palmer LIONEL North Entry--E. D. Emigh 4 South Entry--C. F. Hartnett...