Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found expression in the founding of a parochial school and a convent academy, both accredited to the University of Texas. For the past ten years, prior to his detail as instructor at the Chaplain School two months ago, he has been a chaplain in the Texas National Guard (36th Division...
...hotel came to be a focal point for high society, for the world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...graduation exercise in Sanders Theater, the invocation was offered by Chaplain (Major) Dan A. Laning, former assistant division chaplain of the 36th Infantry Division and now an instructor at the Chaplain School. The graduation address was delivered by the 'Reverend Dr. Willard I. Sperry, dean of the Harvard Theological Divinity School, Following the presentation of diplomas to the sixteen section leaders, who received the tokens for the members of their sections, the exercise were ended by the blessing pronounced by Chaplain (Capt.) Donald R. Brownelt...
...Labor Day weekend the U.S. tennis season ended with the National finals at Forest Hills. One of the entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many...
...36th wedding anniversary, shook hands with a man who had also been present at the wedding: James Sloan, red-faced Irishman who was in charge of White House Secret Service agents in 1905 (President Theodore Roosevelt gave away his niece Eleanor) and who is still on duty daily at the entrance to the White House executive offices...