Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair and accommodating. And the early seat application deadlines enable the H.A.A. high command to minimize accurately the stag environs and maximize the more colorful areas of the arena. Taking conscientious account of the swollen enrollment of the University, the inevitability of some lines, and the steam age era design of the Stadium... the new plan works quite well...
...minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange for a Western wink at Moscow's absorption of millions of hapless non-Russians and 275,000 square miles of territory for greater "security"), the Kremlin...
...month later, Genoa customs authorities notified him that the two tables of intricate design were stalled there. Unless Covre forwarded a "certificate of origin" they could not be shipped. To get the certificate, he had to make several trips to his local chamber of commerce. The chamber needed two more copies of the original bill, which also had to be registered at the registration office and visaed by the price control office...
Married. Louise Gill Macy Hopkins, 42, fashion expert, third and last wife of the late White House adviser, Harry Hopkins; and Geoffrey McNair Gates, 43, director of Manhattan's Parsons School of Design; both for the third time; in Ardmore...
...sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity to best advantage for his country...