Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Danny Dannenbaum is another Bulldog swimmer who will be carrying Coach Kiphuth's fondest hopes on his shoulders when he enters the 150-yard backstroke. Although a "clutch" swimmer if there ever was one, he will probably be hard pressed by Ohio State's Mark Follansbee, Princeton's Tom Shand and Harvard's Bill Drucker...
...Fourth is buttressed by 79 tanks. Its reconnaissance troop is expanded to a battalion (with 14 tanks). It has an anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
...fell into SEC's bailiwick, called over Jerome Frank, who took along his stock-market regulator, Ganson Purcell, and his investment trust muckraker and regulator, cigar-rotating, handball-playing David Schenker. When Quinn laid the idea on the table, Frank quickly recognized it as one of his fondest...
...below the surface, far from the biggest bomb's reach, the occupants stepped or were carried out. They were expectant mothers, taking shelter from R. A. F. raids in Adolf Hitler's personal maternity ward. These chambers where potential life could defy potential death were planned with fondest care by the Führer. They consisted of large, air-conditioned dormitories with neat rows of white beds; electric kitchens; an operating room with the latest obstetrical equipment. Night and day nurses of the Nazi Welfare Organization stood by under the orders of five physicians. Before birth occurred, Berlin...
...King Carol moved with alacrity. While he was reported preparing to leave the Entente his subjects pumped 3,000 tank cars full of gasoline and sent them hurrying to Germany; pleaded with Rome and Berlin for advice on the Russian note. All this added up to Britain's fondest hope: that somewhere along that long electrified line between German and Russian spheres there might soon be a short circuit, then a fire...