Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The last time Ways saw Europe he was busy inspecting U.S. economic intelligence outposts from Naples to Chungking. That was in 1944, when Ways was chief of the U.S. Foreign Economics Administration's Enemy Branch, which tried to keep track of German and Japanese war production for the U.S...
Other feats of "the busy 25" Eli raiders on their Princeton operation were tieing up network communications and officials, painting the stadium clock blue, brushing a large blue "Y" on dormitory walls, and taking scoreboard numerals as trophies.
Members have already visited the Club Cabin, six miles north of Jackson, New Hampshire, and have been busy getting it into shape for the long New England winter. Basing their prognostications on past experience, old members expect heavy snow to start falling in the New Hampshire mountains about December 1...
Democrats were too busy fingering their bruises to have answers to these multiple problems. But few seemed particularly cheered by a soothing post-election observation by Eleanor Roosevelt:
This week their eight-page, English-language tabloid was eight months old and growing fast. Its founders (who almost lost their shirts and their $36,000 capital in the first 90 days) had 23,000 circulation in Italy, were flying 500 copies a day to Athens, lining up outlets all...