Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic and worldwide activities. It now sprawls out in 23 departments, 104 bureaus, 460 offices, 631 divisions, 40 boards. Over the globe it owns more than 5,000 buildings (139 in Washington alone) and more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, worth about $2 billion. Its records would fill six buildings the size of the Pentagon. Overlapping and duplication of effort abound. Example: a Columbia River salmon, swimming upstream to spawn, comes under the jurisdiction of twelve different federal agencies concerned with fish and wildlife...
...source book, it is a success. Its authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...
...meeting of the cabinet after the dinner Robert P. Hyde '51 of Belmont was appointed to fill the secretarial slot vacated by Perry...
Advocates of the pact maintain that since the United States is already morally committed to defend western Europe just as surely as if it were still filled with American soldiers no actual additional military obligation on our part would result from our participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment...
...Actually, the hiring situation has been pretty well back to normal since last spring," Teele said, He emphasized, however, that there is still a relatively high demand for students in technical fields, particularly engineering. "There have always been more positions than candidates to fill them in the technical fields," he said...