Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were three acres of deck space. A walk around the Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded up during the war, were unveiled again. Both public and staterooms were paneled in woods from every continent-from beech to rich mahogany, rare and exotic betula and petula...
GORDON FERRIE HULL Professor Emeritus of Physics Dartmouth College Hanover...
...veto of the tax-cut bill (TIME, June 23), which House Republicans were determined to override. They got a shock. Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn had done a fast job of rounding up diffident Democrats. He had also corralled two rebel Republicans-Wisconsin's stolid ex-Progressive, Merlin Hull, and Minnesota's sharp-faced Carl Anderson. When the vote was counted, and breathlessly recounted, Hull and Anderson represented the margin of Administration victory. If they had stayed with their party, the Republicans would have squeaked through with the two-thirds vote necessary to override...
...review of Cineguild's production of Great Expectations [TIME, May 26] omitted a very interesting sidelight. The men responsible for the newest English smash hit not only read Dickens; they looked over a print of the American version of this same classic, made some years ago with Henry Hull as star. The gulf between was so wide that they decided in justice to Dickens that it was imperative that the wrong be righted. As your article points out, they have succeeded admirably...
Then he began to change. He saw a world shrinking under the mechanized wonders of the war. He was the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee and as such assumed a burden of responsibility; he held earnest conversations with Cordell Hull. Then came the unprecedented policy meeting of Republican leaders held in September 1943, at Mackinac Island, Mich. At that conference Vandenberg produced the word "participation," which expressed the determination of the great majority of Republican Party leaders to stay in world affairs after...