Word: corlette
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Harvard lobbyist Jane H. Corlett sees that this growth has further subjected higher education to governmental jurisdiction and criticism...
...becoming harder and harder to convince Congress that we are not a special interest," says Corlett. "They are asking us more and more to act as a business, which has forced us to become more active in ways that appears like a special interest group...
...across from the present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in battlement fashion," and a "broad chimney on one side, of stone and brick, (which) gave promise of a generous fireplace within." The school's first master, Elijah Corlett, wore a wig and doublet while he taught his pupils--almost exclusively boys looking forward to entering Harvard. The first school moved repeatedly, finally emerging as the Washington School...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...
South Battle. The Army found the going slower on Kwajalein Island, whose strong pockets held out until battleships and bombers were recalled to help the land-based artillery and bazookas. Kwajalein's pillbox-to-pillbox struggle ended after four days, and Corlett's soldiers rushed northward to capture Ebeye with its seaplane base, Loi and Gugegwe...