Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting figure in that revolution is a dour-visaged man who watches it with gloomy satisfaction from a waterfront office in Manhattan. His name is William Francis Gibbs-known solemnly to his friends as William Francis. Lawyer, engineer and head of Gibbs & Cox, he is the top U.S. naval architect and marine engineer. His firm designed Paddy O'Laughlin's landing ships. It designed the Liberty ships. It has designed merchant ships, destroyers, tankers, cruisers. It designs means of building them swiftly and efficiently. It lays down their specifications and in many cases orders the materials...
...G.O.P. in Minnesota gave out no wild cheers over this sudden recruit. Young silo-shaped Governor Harold E. Stassen, architect of Minnesota's new G.O.P., had not planned any rooms in the Republican house for guest stars. He had just enough for his own. Stassen had already sent to the Senate one of them, Joe Ball, a rangy newspaperman with a stomachful of courage...
This summer the Governor noticed that the visitors were taking over all the best rooms and trying to remodel the upstairs. In fact Senator Shipstead, no amateur architect himself, was planning to tear down the whole house and put up a new one, in which he had the master bedroom and Messrs. Stassen, Ball and friends had no rooms...
...village smith of Landgrove, Vt. (pop. 64) is Samuel Robinson Ogden, 46, Swarthmore graduate, architect, World War I veteran, former legislator, author of a book on gardening (How to Grow Food for Your Family) and schoolteacher. He is also a colorful character and the insurgent candidate for the Republican nomination for his State's lone seat in the House...
Walter Pidgeon, an architect, uses his pleasure yacht to rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, while his wife, Greer Garson, whose worries heretofore consisted in choosing her latest fall hat, is accosted by a wounded Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husbank under the rain of Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husband under the rain...