Word: towing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of the relation of universities to war, such reversals of opinion as noted above will, I believe, continue until the universities develop and use tow such tools. These tow tools, I think, would be the study of metaphysics and the education and discipline of the emotions, both to be required of all students and all the faculty...
...strength of the Corps, recorded daily on a chart in General Holcomb's office, stood at 37,500 (not including 4,000 reservists being called to active duty). At the training stations at Parris Island, S. C. and San Diego, Calif., young recruits were put in tow of hard-mouthed N. C. O.s in starched khaki, to be taught how to look, act and think like Marines...
...Sadie Hawkins Eve, letters and telegrams had arrived from 1,300 male-chasers at Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Connecticut College. Next day, their bids accepted by Yale men, more than 200 showed up. With their men in tow, they marched into the Bowl in a chilly rain. But there was to be no manchasing in the Yale Bowl. At the last moment, the News had cold feet. Sole evidence of Sadie Hawkins Day in the Bowl was an undergraduate representing Daisy Mae, who suddenly dashed on the field at halftime in the midst of a humorless procession...
Meantime the blazing Empress, her belly billowing smoke, paint sizzling off her like strips of bacon, was taken in tow. Up slipped a German submarine and finished her off with two torpedoes...
...bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked...