Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for breaches of discipline, and some 80 promptly had their privileges restored. At Hyde Park, where he had Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he spied a handsome Persian rug which he had presented to F.D.R. six years ago. Beaming, he got down on his knees, fingered it, and made...
...President Truman and formally resigned. "I had to wait a couple of weeks until Marshall could get back [from China]. So I went to the Naval Hospital again and they made another test. After they got through, a doctor came and said he did not know what to make of it. Everything was now all right. I had not taken any of the pills they gave me or anything. I haven't bothered about my health since...
...Substantial improvement in the intra-European payments scheme to make convertibility of currency easier, i.e., to make the pound, the franc, and other national currencies eventually equally acceptable anywhere within Europe...
Would you be for or against the University's trying to make Harvard more attractive by promising incoming football players more money than they need for board, room, and tuition? For 12% Against 85% No answer...
...next entry, the '50 publication. There is more hope here, though. The Council has shrewdly plucked the album portfolio away from the annual class committees and handed it over to a permanent self-producing group which hopes eventually to achieve independent status. The Council also agreed to make the thing a yearbook, aimed at all classes rather than an album confined to seniors...