Word: hull
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...John Dickey graduated from Dartmouth in 1929, went on to the Harvard Law School and then to the varied sort of career of a typical rising young man. In 1934 he divided his time between private practice and service with the State Department. He became special assistant to Cordell Hull, chairman of the department's Division of World Trade Intelligence. In 1944, when Dartmouth was looking for a new president, Dickey was appointed director of State's Office of Public Affairs. In 1945 he became Dartmouth's president...
...Atlantic Charter meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt, and at their later conference in Washington; in 1942 he was with Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, with Churchill and Stalin in Moscow; in 1943 he was with Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca, in Washington and in Quebec; with Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow; with Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang in Cairo, and with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; in 1944 he was with Stalin, Churchill and Eden in Moscow; in 1945 with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, Harry Hopkins and Stalin in Moscow, Harry Truman, Churchill, Clement...
Died. Frederick William Nichol, 63, Canadian-born vice president and general manager (1935-49) of International Business Machines Corp., special administrative adviser (1944) to Secretaries of State Cordell Hull and Edward Stettinius; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There were setbacks, of course. One Richard Hull, of Scotland, in accordance with a notion that on Judgment Day the world will be tipped the other way round, had himself buried upside down on his horse...
Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...