Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Army. Their general is a shrewd, imaginative physicist, Dr. Vannevar (rhymes with beaver) Bush, in peacetime president of the Carnegie Institution's vast scientific empire. His job is unprecedented in U.S. military history: as chairman of the Army & Navy's Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, he is the first civilian technician ever to sit in the highest war councils. The Office of Scientific Research and Development, which he commands, is in effect a fifth branch, G5, of the military general staff. Under OSRD (working with the Army's and Navy's own laboratories...
According to the best available records, he is the only member of his service ever to brave the hallowed corridors of Beaver Hall. We thought perhaps that the USMC had decided to send a one man gang to Boston to take over NSCS, but such is not the case. Lt. Lenhart was unfortunate enough to choose one of the few branches--aviation supply--of the Marine Corps that works under the Navy supply system, so it was his penalty to undergo the SC course...
...have lost a hand, an ear or the side of your face in battle or in an accident, a Detroit sculptor named Beaver Edwards can make you a duplicate, in three weeks, so lifelike that only close observers can tell the difference. Like Hollywood's Jack Dawn (TIME, July 12), Beaver Edwards makes his realistic faces and ears of a rubbery plastic. Jack Dawn learned his methods as a Hollywood make-up chief. Beaver Edwards developed his by teaching sculpture at the Michigan College of Mortuary Science...
Only two of the nine Liberators in Ben's "Eager Beaver" squadron came back. The sight of empty bunks and mess lines haunted him; he could not sleep for three nights. Yet when his prescribed 25 missions had been fulfilled, he turned down a chance to fly home, volunteered instead for an extra five...
...winter production, the Harvard, Dramatic Club has selected Sir James M. Barry's "The Admirable Crichton." The Idlers will team up with girls from the Beaver Country Day School, and Miss Jenkins of that school will direct...