Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arlington, Va., $500 David A. Wells Prize in Economics. Marcus W. Collins Ph.D. '43, Cambridge, Mass., $300 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by a graduate student. Edwin D. Harrington, Jr. '43-4, Wynecote, Pa., $200 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by an undergraduate; Edwin J. Jacob '47-1, Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder Prize for excellence in German...
...closing of that circle gave grim satisfaction to the man who commands U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, brisk, wiry, peppery Lieut. General Carl Spaatz...
...took our Calvert books ... a Catholic nun taught the children. . . . Jim is now in 8th grade-doing beautifully. . . . Carl is in 7th and his teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
...major general: Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (permanent rank, colonel); Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright (brigadier general); Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell (brigadier general). To brigadier general: Lieut. General George C. Kenney (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Mark Clark (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Carl Spaatz (colonel); Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker (lieutenant colonel...
...Federal Writers' Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...