Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugh Cooper, who built for the U. S. S. R. its vast Dnieper dam, called on the President to discuss the Tennessee Valley waterpower project, possible recognition by the U. S. of Russia...
...Capitalist colleagues, despite the Soviet Army of 800,000 men. But Comrade Litvinov does really believe in total disarmament and has frequently presented a plan calling for reduction, not limitation, of armaments, according to a mathematical formula. He blazed with anger in 1929 when little U. S. Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson privately denounced the Litvinov Plan as presented in bad faith, then presented a plan of his own paralleling its two most important points...
Sportsman. Like another party of Britons under Explorer Hugh Ruttledge, who were crawling toward the same goal afoot, the Mt. Everest flyers were engaged basically in a sporting proposition. Others had ascended to the stratosphere, descended to the bathysphere, flown all the oceans. The Houston-Mt. Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January...
...roster of Surgeon Generals thus stood complete: Hugh Smith Gumming...
...Cantos-will last as long as there is any literature." T. S. Eliot (who dedicated his famed The Waste Land to Pound): ". . . There is no other contemporary . . . whom I ever want to reread for pleasure." Allen Tate: "One of the three great works of poetry in our time." Hugh Walpole: "He is a beautiful mingler of dead worlds and live ones to me-one of the few poets who bridges the gulf between the Renaissance and Lenin." Archibald MacLeish: "Pound, more than any other man, is responsible for the emancipation of modern English poetry from the prose tradition...