Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educator. At Wyoming, polished, personable President Morrill proved his mettle by cleaning up a political mess which had brought university morale to an alltime low. He also persuaded Wyoming's politically potent ranchers that cultural subjects at Laramie were not just academic woolgathering. So swiftly did his fame spread that in the past year he has been offered ten other university presidencies. Last week he accepted the eleventh offer: from big University of Minnesota (peacetime enrollment...
...basis of that rather dubious claim to fame, some 20 impressionable newspapers buy her syndicated wares which are presented in a rather fluffy column to attract what we once called the gum-chewing trade...
...National Guard has a long and honorable tradition. Records of some regiments go back to the Indian wars before the Revolution. The Blue-Grey Division, the Yankee Division, the Rainbow Division are a few among many National Guard outfits known to fame...
...specialist's study: it is for the general reader, who may find parts of it?such as the chapters on Johnson as critic and philosopher?slowgoing. But he can hardly fail to enjoy the lovingly collected abundance of anecdotes and sayings which are Johnson's rightful claim to fame...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...