Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students at Radcliffe, M. I. T., and Northeastern. Since its recent affiliation with the A. Y. D., the national antifascist youth movement, it has circulated petitions endorsing the Lynch-Dickstein Bill to restrict racial and religious propaganda from the mails and has backed the program drawn up by Professor Gordon W. Allport, head of the Psychology Department, to fight race prejudice...
...Boyd thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
Sports fans on the south bank of the Charles River at 2 o'clock tomorrow will have the opportunity to see one of America's fastest humans compete with collegiate runners as Gil Dodds brings an informal Gordon Seminary quartet into the triangular Harvard - Tufts - Coast Guard cross country meet...
Jack Pots. In Ogden, Utah, Victor Adams dipped his hand into a box to draw the winner of a $1,000 war-bond lottery, drew his own name. In Gordon, Wis., Autoist Roy Guest saw a hawk overhead with a partridge in its mouth, honked his horn twice, startled the hawk into dropping the bird in front...
...first aid, then rushed him ashore, where nurses and orderlies handled him like a piece of priceless Wedgwood. After X rays had located the projectile, surgeons working from behind a steel plate deftly and delicately removed it. Marine ordnance men exploded the shell, sent the shattered casing to Gordon, now convalescing...