Word: bushes
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...dogged, conservative Forrest Donnell, became the only Democrat to turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
...engineering and applied science departments have been in a state of flux since their inception, with Vanevar Bush heading an advisory committee for the determination of proper distribution of the McKay money. Facilities for E.S.A.P. and some mechanical engineering equipment have been housed in temporary structures in back of the biology laboratories...
...years Athletics fans have had little worth remembering. The Philadelphia story has been a succession of bush-leaguers who seldom lived up to promise, of dreary teams and second-division finishes. In Philadelphia this year, nearly everybody went out to watch Eddie Sawyer's Whiz Kids win the National League pennant. Connie Mack's last-place A's drew only 310,129 fans; that added up to about half a million dollars...
Other Harvard participants include Philippe Le Corbeiller, professor of General Education, J. N. Douglas Bush, professor of English, Richard Wilbur, Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, and Sherman Paul teaching fellow in English...
Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...