Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never struggled much past a state of mental disorder. In her attitude toward Roosevelt . . . she began with a mild approval of plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were put into effect. . . . She came to regard the New Deal as totalitarian in design and stifling to enterprise. But her attention drifted presently to foreign affairs, where free and progressive feelings did not entail the embarrassment of dealing with facts close at hand. . . . Her estimates of the temper of America have been grandiosely inaccurate...
...Modern School of Fashion and Design invites the V-12 Unit and the NROTC to a private dance at the Hotel Statler tomorrow evening...
...desk-bound BuShips, full of admiration for its own design, continued to cold-shoulder Higgins. It went on passing out contracts for lighters blueprinted from its own pet theories. With 1,100 of the Bureau's design on order, a test was finally arranged between a BuShips lighter and a Higgins boat...
Crecca: We just got some disconcerting information regarding a possible change in the design of the tank lighters...
...result of the test, BuShips changed the lighters under construction to the Higgins design. But the 1942 Truman report was blunt in its chastisement: "It is clear that the Bureau of Ships has. for reasons known only to itself, stubbornly persisted for over five years in clinging to an unseaworthy tank-lighter design...