Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Program. Then Harry Truman noted some "shortcomings" in an otherwise happy land. He told Congress what it should do about them and thus laid out his legislative program...
...Training Plans he was general manager of the Commonwealth's pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...
Lancaster wears his considerable knowledge of Greek history and architecture without pretension, and his first-rate drawings in line and color make Classical Land, scape a far more attractive guide than the standard authorities. What gives Lancaster's book its special quality is the easy and pertinent shuttling from present to past and back to the immediate. His Anglo-Saxon standards, it turns out, left him with plenty to admire-from the Byzantine intrusions on the classic architecture so revered by the purists, to the Greeks themselves, whom he found lazy, but rarely rude or stupid...
...federal government is giving plenty of aid to education as it is--most of it by direct subsidy through the GI Bill--and it has given plenty in the past, beginning with land grants for colleges in the last century, and school-house building programs in the Depression. What the various pressure groups desire is that the money forthcoming from the Eighty-First Congress will be unconditional--no strings attached. What they desire more fervently, of course, is the money itself...
...telephone rang, and the Chief Editorial Writer, famed and celebrated throughout the land for his fearless and colorful crusades, rolled over, picked it up, grunted at it, and started listening, "O.K. champ, you're in the slot. We're printing this morning instead of tonight on account of somebody fouled up the schedule. We need an editorial...