Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen Points? Oh, no, he said, this plan just contained principles. Would there be a formal conference to thrash out differences? Franklin Roosevelt said he didn't know anything about any conference. Heavens, he added, he could conduct a conversation over the telephone. That was all that there was going...
...Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
...duties of the committee will be to run all Freshman affairs with the assistance of the Council and after the war to initiate and conduct elections for the permanent class officers. The Class of 1947 Freshman committee is at present under the chairmanship of Nathan Weston, of Cambridge and Dunster House...
...nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American...
Stokowski had been engaged to conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...