Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed Southern Methodism and the common...
Otto Yulevich Shmidt is a bearded Soviet academician, mathematician and Polar explorer. At the age of 56 he is also a man of remarkable longevity...
...Impulse. Hopper did not hit his stride until middle age, when sudden fame as an interpreter of the American scene-a sort of Theodore Dreiser in art-freed him. Nowadays, Hopper and his wife, who keeps her own painting studiously in the background, can afford a house on Cape Cod as well as their Manhattan studio apartment overlooking Washington Square...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...
Though the credit for it was only partly his, Michael L. (for Late, after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum amply deserved the tribute. He started in the oil business at the age of 20 with $500 in cash and a million dollars' worth of nerve. Along with the late Joe Clifton Trees, the technical brains of a lifelong partnership, he struck his first oil in West Virginia...