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My first sounds like conditionality.
Tossed with the wind, it must use the correct key.
In my second, you might be struck in the face
By a crew of roughnecks, or maybe take Chase.
My third resembles Tiny William (not Tim) -
The wish for the future but not on a whim.
As for the fourth, it's a fifty-fifty shot
At the end of the ninth, but a homer it's not.
My whole needed bread, but got a rich man's cake
From a donor who wished to jump in the lake.
Solution and Explanation
First: WOOD (WOULD)
When one is using the conditional
construction in grammar, one uses the word "would"; if you take the sound
of "would", you arrive at the homophone "wood." If you then add wood to
wind, you get a woodwind, or an instrument that must be played in a certain
key.
Second: ROW
If you had a row, or fight, with
someone, you might be struck in the face. Also, a member of the crew team
would row in the Princeton Chase race, a well-known collegiate event.
Third: WILL
A diminutive of William as well
as a legal document stating how one would like his estate handled in the
future.
Fourth: SON
A woman has a fifty-fifty (more
or less) shot of having a son at the end of her ninth month.
WOOD (WOULD) + ROW + WILL + SON = WOODROW WILSON
After Carnegie donated the money
necessary to create Lake Carnegie, Woodrow Wilson tried to get him to give
additional funds to support the Graduate School. Carnegie refused.
Wilson was said to have responded, "I needed bread, but you gave me cake."
Winners
| #1 | Bruce Berger '91 |
| #2 | Brian Baum '96 |
| #3 | Joseph J. Perkins, Jr. '76 |
| #4 | Bruce Lin *99 MAE |
| #5 | Jan Logan *78 RLL |
Other Correct Entries
| Sibel P. Bayrakci *99 PHY |
| Richard T. Brown, Jr. '87 |
| Scott Craver GS |
| Joseph T. Erbe Jr. |
| Linda Jeney '93 |
| James L. Lewis '57 |
| Anita Loerke |
| Peter Ouyang GS |
| David Ricci Relyea GS |
| Bob Rodgers '56 |
| Van Zandt Williams Jr. '65 |
All those submitting correct entries were entered in the Grand Prize drawing held in early July.
Congratulations!
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