Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, with Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of Carnegic Institution in Washington as Chairman, was appointed by President Roosevelt and has the cooperation of The Bureau of Standards, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council for its work, which will in no way replace but merely supplement the experiments now being carried on by the Army and Navy. It is intended merely to accelerate and increase present governmental research...
...threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose," often upon...
...wooded peninsula northeast of Baltimore, between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, is not so peaceful as it looks. Edgewood Arsenal is there. There also is the Army's Chemical Warfare School. Last week 24 National Guard officers reported there to study and practice defenses against war's most forbidding weapon. They joined 24 others in the first National Guard gas class since the Guard was mobilized for a year's field training...
Grenville Clark, Jr. '41, and Curtis A. Bush '43 will compose the Crimson team with William C. Murphy '42 acting as chairman...
Those who expect synthetics some day to push rubber off the market entirely, those who think the Mexican guayule bush a better bet, looked dubious; but Vargas was confident. That he had rubber-worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil...