Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian troops fought, fell back, fought again. British crews arrived with a few U.S. tanks-too few. U.S. pilots in China's American Volunteer Group had to abandon Rangoon, after taking a heavy toll of Japanese planes with the few bullet-battered fighters left to them. Correspondent Leland Stowe watched a bombed village burn, and wrote "When you looked again at the sagging skeletons of these wooden structures, somehow you thought immediately of Japan-Japanese buildings are made of the same tinderlike material as these Burmese dwellings. That seemed to be what the flames in Toungoo were saying...
...Then OCD said Mr. Douglas was actually going to look after OCD's art division, at the rate of $8,000 a year (when he worked at it; he is still in the movies). Straightway Congress sounded off. He's a Red, cried California's Leland Ford. He isn't, either, cried California's Jerry Voorhis. This hue & cry flushed another playmate-protégé from OCD's covert: one Mayris Chaney, a toothsome blonde dancer who in 1938 had made up a dance which she gratefully called the "Eleanor Glide." Miss Chaney...
Washington newsmen figured last week that Pearl Harbor's ill bombing blew them some good. Captain Leland Pearson Lovette, whose destroyer was sunk at Pearl Harbor, was appointed assistant to Rear Admiral Hepburn, Chief of Navy Public Relations. He succeeds popular Commander Robert ("Bob") Berry, who will shortly return to active sea duty. "Leon" Lovette, a big, amiable Tennessean, headed Navy's Press Section from 1937 to 1940, has a lot of Washington newspaper friends to show...
...income which supports Leland Stanford, Jr. University comes from a vineyard...
...dioxide in the presence of light. And unlike any of the 250,000 species of plants, one of these animals-Euglena rubra by name-changes its color, now red, now green, to control the amount of light it uses. This phenomenon was explained last week in Physiological Zoology by Leland P. Johnson of Drake University and Theodore Louis Jahn of the University of Iowa...