Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fort Knox, Ky., he played his first slot machine, hit a $10 jackpot which didn't pay off. In Phoenix, Ariz., he bulldogged a steer, rode a palomino named Cream of Wheat Jr., had his first date (dinner and a square dance) since his arrival with an American girl: willowy blonde Northwestern Graduate Joanne Frakes, 23, who later confessed that she had trouble remembering he was a King. "He only acted kingly a couple of times," she said, "mostly he was just like any other nice...
Playwright-Author Robert E. Sherwood (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Roosevelt and Hopkins') was the only new member elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose membership is limited to 50. He filled the spot vacated by the death of Historian James Truslow Adams (Founding of New England, The Living Jefferson...
Sherman Douglas, pretty, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had arrived at a universal truth as she flew into New York with her grandmother to spend the Christmas holidays in the U.S. Asked if she preferred Englishmen to American men, she said thoughtfully: "Men are men, no matter where they...
...used to spend long hours in the saddle overseeing their property, used it because while it covered ground it was easy on the rider. A horse's three conventional speeds forward-the walk, trot and canter-were either too slow, too fast or too uncomfortable for some early American connoisseurs...
When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...