Word: meeker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week he ordered the members of his cabinet not to leave Paris for two months, in view of the financial emergency. His program stuck close to the Reynaud plan, which had caused the Socialists to upset the last two governments. Fear of Charles de Gaulle was making the Socialists meeker...
Kenneth found his new start in two small rooms in the Masonic Building: Grand Haven's "guidance center." In full possession of the center was a counselor, Dorothy Meeker Holmes, wife of a school superintendent, mother of two, clubwoman, civic worker. Counselor Holmes pondered the problem of Kenneth: how was he to get an education (preferably for a business or teaching career) which would make it unnecessary for a man with less than two lungs to return to a factory...
Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...
Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...
...solution to the transportation problem was proposed last week by two top-flight U.S. engineers (Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of the Normandie, and Frederick B. Woodworth, Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss...