Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the first world was he held a position in the War Department, accepting the Alford Professorship after the Armistice. He is now the holder of five degrees...
Worth Hale, retiring as associate Professor Pharmacology at the Medical School, has been there since 1908 and was once Acting Dean. Professor Ford, a holder of degrees from several Universities in foreign countries is retiring as Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages...
Franklin Roosevelt stuffed another cigaret in his ivory holder, leaned far back in his big chair, told his press conference, as usual, that he had "no news except. . . ." Then he proceeded to fill out the "except...
...Holder. Patton replaced scrappy, 59-year-old Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, an infantryman and tactician who may have been the unluckiest general in the North African campaign. FredendalE had to hold the whole central Tunisian front with an inadequate army of poorly equipped French and unseasoned U.S. troops. He said at the time, "I am holding...
...Secret Service men stood on guard, colored waiters came & went, a homely beer barrel was cunningly concealed in a feathery bank of fern. (Cheese & crackers went with the beer.) At the room's south entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, come to take the place of good George Norris...