Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note: Lt-Col. Homer Saint-Gaudens, Harvard-educated head of the camouflage branch of the office of the chief of engineers, said in an article in the Military Engineer that the best camouflage officers, the ones who direct the workers, are "young erstwhile architects." The Boston Traveler
...National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...
...Bicycledom's Big Three, who do 60% of the industry's $37,000,000 business: Arnold Schwinn & Co. (Chicago); Homer P. Snyder Manufacturing Co. (Little Falls, N. Y.); Westfield Manufacturing Co. (Westfield, Mass...
...third of a century has passed since Homer Lea had visions of invasion. Many men, among them many men of the U.S. Army and Navy, have had plenty of time to ponder his lessons...
...coastal job, all within range of naval guns (and therefore their invasion might take the air-land-sea character of British attacks in Libya). After seizing Los Angeles they would strike out for Saugus, Cajon and San Jacinto Passes, sealing the coastal strip, and again hold tight. (Development, since Homer Lea wrote, of the San Diego base would suggest the necessity of a flanking attack, perhaps through Lower California...