Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family weekend at Hyde Park, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt last week wrote in My Day: "After lunch yesterday my brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...
Best Allied bet seemed to be the destruction of the vast supply system needed to feed and munition the 1,000,000-odd men the Germans will have within and behind the Siegfried Position. This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except...
This first solid German blow to the Royal Navy came on the heels of a communique issued last week to assure the British public that something was being done, some progress made, against the U-boats. "His Majesty's destroyers, patrol vessels and aircraft have been carrying out constant patrols over wide areas in search of enemy U-boats. Many attacks have been made and a number of U-boats have been destroyed. Survivors have been rescued and captured when possible...
Last week Robert Marion Metcalf could congratulate himself on a big job well done, in the nick of time. A short, baldish, bustling American with a fringe-beard, he knows and loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf...
...Lyons, in addition to caring for the Nieman Fellowships and presiding at the Nieman dinners, will continue to work for the Boston Globe, with which he has been connected for 10 years. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College and has also done graduate work at Harvard...