Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shipping Control Committee, along with Brother Frederick. From there the Brothers Gibbs launched out into the field of ship designing, finally set up an office on lower Broadway. Some years later they formed a partnership with Daniel Hargate Cox, well-known yacht designer. Mr. Cox lent luster then. Now 70-year-old Mr. Cox's forte is no longer the firm's mainstay. He is now busy with Navy maintenance work. Business head of the firm is still Frederick...
Those officers now training at Harvard have been sent here to use facilities which the College has lent the Army and Navy. The undergraduate daring this war is still in mufti, and since it is the preference of the armed forces to bring training under its own jurisdiction rather than leaving it to "amateur military training." it is very unlikely that Harvard in the year 1942-43 will become the armed student camp...
...view of the manpower shortage, everybody wanted the women to work except Local 6. Regional Director James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...
Last week Jew-baiting Dr. Malan lent very little gravity to his cause when he auctioned off his Cape Town home, Brandwag (Sentinel), for which he had paid ?4,400. He accepted a bid of ?7,900 from a Jewish merchant named Solomon Schach. Solomon Schach promptly made the South African score-of-the-week by giving the house the Yiddish name of Hashomer (Sentinel...
Rommel and his officers were very polite. They apologized for not having doctors on hand to care for the wounded among the prisoners. Rommel even lent the colonel his field glasses for a casual look around. Then he granted the gloomy Briton permission to make a farewell speech to his troops...