Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles N. Brush II. Joseph P. Burke, George B. Fotte, Samuel McC. Reed, John D. Rigby, Philip W. Trumbull...
Only West African reports pleasing to the Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
...thousand dollars-made a couple years before when he was in a tight squeeze-generous, square-shooting John Roxborough gave Julian Black, Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...
...campaign publicizes one of the arts most congenial to U.S. artists. Because his splashes of color on paper dry quickly and cannot be worked over, a water-colorist has to make his plans beforehand and embody them with lightning speed and absolute sureness of hand. Unlike oil painting where brush strokes may be laid on canvas, removed, changed with slow, well-planned deliberation, water-coloring is as fast and spontaneous as a tennis game...
...whole project was so successful this year that plans are being considered for continuing it again next summer. A public bathing beach could be made, and there is a large amount of brush around and in the pond which needs to be cleared