Word: ics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started slightly larger Hull 552. Still left is a gap in its fleet which Cunard last week announced will be filled with eight 30,000-to-40,000-ton motorships of an improved Georgic type, each to be given names ending in the traditional Cunard ia. The White Star ic suffix is being abandoned...
...Most intent spectators wrere moppets who paid 50? to study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...
...best competition in instrumental music, "preference to be given to composition for string quartettes or trios, though works with piano accompaniment may compete." The competition is open to all members of the University. Maninscripts must be left with Professor Chairman of the Division of Music, on ic, on or before April 15th...
...Cunarder. Another possibility was Victoria, and a third was Columbia. Princess Elizabeth, often suggested, was losing ground as launching day drew near. Last-minute rumor said the name would be Queen Mary, in honor of England's Queen. Because Cunard with its ia and White Star with its ic have been merged, such a name, it was argued, would favor neither of the old companies...
...White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial...