Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north from Texas over the weekend, containing little force but plenty of leftover moisture, they brought the first sustained rains on Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska since the beginning of July. Any rain, however, was likely to be too late to save much of the harvest in the Midwest. In Dewitt County, Ill., Lester Thorpe went out into his fields of brown stalks and plowed under his 1,100 acres of corn last week. "There's not enough here for seed or to cover the cost of harvesting," he said with a sigh. "Best just...
...added benefit for adults, but not children, is that the cost of a computer camp can often be a tax write-off. Many camps point out in their brochures that the Internal Revenue Service regards computer instruction as a tax-deductible business expense. -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Robert Buderi/San Francisco
That left another gap in Adler's set of academic credentials. He had quit DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx before getting a diploma. Late last week the school's alumni association offered to make him an honorary graduate...
...intervened with an acquaintance, the Attorney General Francis Biddle, and members of the Department of Justice; these men opposed internment. General DeWitt, in command of West Coast Army headquarters, joined the pressure; "military necessity" overruled objections from Washington. In my recollection, McCloy was not an actor in what quickly became West Coast mass California hysteria. David Riesman...