Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope had just come back from a bush-beating tour of the Midwest and West, where he had headed one of Leader Martin's "fact-finding" committees, collecting complaints against the Administration. Mr. Martin listened happily to reports of discontent over the trade treaties, set off across the Capitol Plaza to counsel with Senate G. O. P. Pilot Charles Linza McNary of Oregon...
...emperor of this well-revenued scientific empire is Dr. Vannevar Bush. Dr. Bush's annual report and the Institution's Year Book are packjammed with accounts of what the empire got for its money in the 16 months ending last November. Samples...
Emperor. Only 49, a small, keen-eyed, fast-thinking, tireless, eloquent Yankee, Vannevar ("Van") Bush year ago stepped into the presidential shoes of Dr. John Campbell Merriam (who is officially retired but continues his own researches in paleontology). Dr. Bush takes his new job in his stride. Besides learning the ropes of the Carnegie Institution, he finds time to chairman the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Academy of Sciences' division of engineering. Besides, he loves symphonies, himself flutes, hunts, sails, quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard. In New Hampshire he has a farm where...
...clergyman, grandson of a whaling sea captain, Van Bush went to Tufts, taught there, moved on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became vice president and dean of engineering...