Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daughter Elizabeth was also feeling fine. Chipper in mink and taffeta, she showed up at a BBC show, looking every inch the serene and happy matron (see cut), in her first public appearance since the baby came...
General Peyton C. March, bearded Army Chief of Staff in World War I, reached a spry 84 in Washington, passed up his usual birthday press conference to spend the whole day with the four generations of his family who came to call...
...Military Government had helped by supplying space, books, building materials and airlift coal-just about everything, in short, but the professors. Professors and instructors, however, were plentiful. They came, 134 so far, from all over Germany. Some of them are refugees from the Russian zone itself; twenty-three left well-paying jobs at the old University of Berlin. Among them is white-bearded, 86-year-old Historian Friedrich Meinecke, who became the new rector...
...home-town girl he had known since they went to kid parties together. They skimped on food and entertainment. Ben haunted the practice tee, even brought his putter back to the hotel to practice on the rug. By 1940, he was beginning to look like a golfer. He came in second in six consecutive tournaments, finally won Pinehurst's North & South Open. That year he finished as golf's top money-winner (with $10,656), repeated in 1941 (with $18,358) and again in 1942 (with...
...alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every U.S. woman), 4,710,000 washing machines, 27.3 million radios, toasters and irons, more than 80 million auto tires...