Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schoolmaster Tewkesbury got the highway fever in 1937. In 1938 he made his way by train, bus, airplane and on foot over the proposed highway route as far as Panama. There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through; that no white man had ever made the trip; that this jungle was an insuperable barrier to the highway. To Schoolmaster Tewkesbury the word "insuperable" was an affront to Americanism...
Sister Martina took music degrees at Chicago's Bush Conservatory and the University of Michigan, but until last summer she composed nothing more pretentious than Christmas songs and little choral pieces. Then she began looking for a narrative poem. The Highwayman ended the search...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert C. Rodger Alice Angelo, Newton Donald G. Schnabel, Jr. Charlotte Taylor, Tufts William P. Slichter Katherine Varrell, Smith Frants Sporon-Fiedler Mary Bush, Dedham Edward M. Taylor June Straw, Hampton Falls, N. H. Wilbur F. Tiemann, Jr. Jerry Hess, Newark, Ohio Louis J. Verhaus, II Ornie Lerner, New York, N. Y. Richard P. Wakefield Eleanor Francis, Maplewood, N. J. Miles C. Wambaugh Ann Munson, Providence, R. I. George A. Work, III Roberta Scholz...
Beating around and through the bush of recent labor-management scuffles, critics had flushed out a scapenannygoat, the Labor Secretary. Congressmen bayed on her trail. Washington wags cracked: the only reason she still holds office is that the President is too much of a gentleman to ask a lady for her seat...