Word: humboldt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jap planes bombed Humboldt Bay last week, a three-star admiral and a two-star general were caught offshore in a small powerboat. The admiral bawled an order to get away from the beach; the general shouted to get back to shore...
...Dance." Brown-eyed Constance Clement, a onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
...high-minded. One of the first sculptresses on record, she had a vigorous if minor talent. She also designed her own startling clothes; all her life she looked like the prizewinner at a masquerade. By the time she was in her middle 205 she was the good friend of Humboldt and Schopenhauer. By the time she was in her middle 305 she had modeled these two, as well as Garibaldi, George V of Hanover, Victoria of England, Ludwig II of Bavaria and platoons of chemists and literary men. At the crest of her fame and beauty, she left Europe, spent...
Cooled by the Humboldt Current, the islands are not as hot as might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths...
...Perryville, Md. Winners in this class have often been spiderwebby suspension bridges, but no large suspension bridges were completed in the U.S. in 1940. In fact the only suspension bridge to win a prize was in the smallest class (under $250,000), the Klamath River Bridge at Orleans, in Humboldt County, Calif. Other winners this year: the Dunnings Creek Bridge ($250,000 to $1,000,000) on the Pennsylvania Turnpike; and the Oceanic Bridge (drawbridge) over New Jersey's Navesink River...