Word: millard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equally gloomy was Maryland's U.S. Senator Millard E. Tydings, speaking before the Indiana State Bar Association. After the war, Tydings predicted, 20 million defense workers will be laid off overnight, the national debt will approximate $250 billion ($7,500 for each family). The Senator's antidote: as soon as possible get the Federal Government out of business and decrease its participation in unemployment relief...
Left in mid-brushstroke as of Aug. 31, unless private funds come to their rescue, will be 42 uniformed artists (19 civilian employes, 23 from the Army). Among the painters involved are: George Biddle himself (now in Algeria), Californian Millard Sheets, Texan Howard Cook, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, New Yorkers Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook...
Unlike Expert Millard F. Hopper's recent bestseller, How to Play Winning Checkers (6,000 copies sold to date), Willie Ryan's book is no primer. It is for the checkerists, new and veteran, who have pored over Dama literature dating back beyond Spain's Torquemada (1547). For the checkerist who can spot a three-for-two shot, Ryan's maze of checker lore is shimmering with clear-cut tactics based on the operations of the best generals in the game...
...simple theme, many a dub of long standing has plucked up interest. Checker sales are ballooning. And the crusty, generally introverted old men of checkers who have long pored over the game that few understood, now have company and competition in the new recruits who talk familiarly of Millard Hopper and bumptious Willie Ryan...
HARVARD--Kempner, fg; Anderson, 3/4; Hathaway, 3/4; Millett, 3/4; Millard, 3/4; Scully, sh; Ausnit, soh; Winter, f; Petchek, f; Gaviglio, f; Parish, f; Carruthers, f; Dawson, f; Lucas, f; Hunt...