Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board on Geographical Names agreed to change the name of Warm Pond, near Willsboro, N.Y. to Highlands Forge Lake after local residents complained that it was very cold and a mile long...
...about was Harvard, which had its own private "sweep" last week. Coached by a scholarly ex-Washington oarsman,* Tom Bolles, Harvard set a new course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...
...total to date: 137. At Lake Success, the President's remark moved Russia's Andrei Gromyko to a glint of dangerously Western humor. Said he: "It seems [Truman] is well ahead...
...being observed. Last week U.S. planes patrolled Palestine coasts, U.N. observers checked Israeli imports for war supplies, manned checkpoints on the road to Jerusalem as big food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose...
...Lake Success Russia's Andrei Gromyko angrily insisted that Russia, too, be allowed to send truce officers. That was the last thing U.N. wanted. But how could...