Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote poetry for his beautiful neighbor, Fraulein Jenny von Westphalen, who, whenever she read one of his poems, "burst into tears of joy and melancholy." Sample: "If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt I shall fling my glove in the world's face; then I, a creator, shall stride through the wreckage...
...three years, they battled Kitty Hawk's mosquitoes and sandfleas and flew their gliders off a high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...
...typhoid fever. Orville sold the company and his patents to Eastern capitalists in 1915. Orville had conceived the plane as a convenience for private citizens. He watched with pride and considerable dismay as planes became bigger and faster. Thanks to his pioneering, every nation would be made a neighbor. He had also unwittingly created an instrument of destruction that would loose unimagined violence upon the world...
...thirty years behind other eastern colleges in out good neighbor policy," said co-founder Patrick D. Dalley '50 last night as he described the make up of the incipient "Key," worked out by Dailey (who is chairman of the Student Council's H.A.A. committee), Hall, Vincent W. Jones, Jr. '45, and Edward L. Maguire...
Crime in the Afternoon. In Venice, Calif., a burglar intent on robbing the home of Mrs. George Blackmer: 1) tied up Mrs. Blackmer and two visiting ladies, 2) answered the doorbell and bound Neighbor Kenneth Thompson, 3) untied one of the ladies to quiet a squalling baby, 4) answered the doorbell and tied up a salesman, 5) walked out, muttering...