Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Point, Cadet David Lee Arnold, 22, graduated 450th in his class from the Military Academy and married Jean Simmons, 20, of Mountain Lakes, N.J., all with the beaming approval of his General of the Air Force father, Old Grad (1907) Henry. H. ("Hap") Arnold...
...Lexington, Va., Robert E. Lee IV, 24, great-grandson of the General of the Confederacy, graduated from the university named after his ancestor: Washington...
With reason, most U.S. colleges complain about the stormy financial weather they see ahead. Nevertheless, last week a few windfalls blew in: ¶ Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $5,100,000 from alumni. Biggest gift: $1,000,000 from General Motors Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr., class of '95, for a new metals-processing laboratory...
...contented either with the United Nations or with the general situation in Europe ... I am not contented with myself . . . with the development of my character . . . and with my literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
...General Electric Co.'s Erie works this week, railroad men will get their first good look at a new locomotive. It resembles a diesel on the outside, but is radically different on the inside. The engine, developed over a five-year period by G.E. and American Locomotive Co., is a gas turbine-electric locomotive, the first of its kind in the U.S. It was ready for test runs on the Union Pacific Railroad...