Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of a wartime Senate committee investigating defense production, Missouri's Senator Harry Truman looked closely at Emerson and "could never find anything wrong with it," as he put it. Impressed with Symington and his performance at Emerson, President Truman summoned him to the White House in mid-1945. "Stu," said Truman, "I want to dump a load of coal on you." He asked Symington to serve as head of the Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from...
...sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite and the capital's most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum...
Professor Hanfmann listed the more important areas where he feels certain Sardis excavations will eventually prove of extreme interest. "As an art historian, I am especially eager to learn more about the native school of sculpture in Sardis and feel quite hopeful that our expedition can find new examples of this style. Theologians are eager to learn more about the religious, social, and political organization of early Christian communities; Sardis is a most notable...
Arriving at Section 34, Lucius was directed to go up five rows and find his seat. This was not easy to do, however, for as he edged modestly along the row, he soon appreciated that his place...
...graduate school also seeks to provide the student with a "kit of tools," and "in matters relevant to his work, it seeks to teach him some of what is known, how to find more of what is known, and to be search in "what is not known" is not known." But advanced scholarly research in "what is not known is not the concern of these graduate students, who are future "men of affairs...