Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None of the dry texts recalled the past quite so vividly as the old photographs: Stalin and Ribbentrop clasping hands in the Kremlin, faces gleaming with private smiles...
...CRIMSON man I am sure that I will be pardoned a personal word--and I am sure, also, that I voice the sentiments of all that company of happy mean when I say that none of them would exchange his CRIMSON training for any other experience or association in college days...
...into the techniques of a newspaper. Added to this was the companionship with a highly congenial group of fellow editors which, nearly throughout my time on the paper and during the period of the presidency which we divided in the senior year, included Franklin D. Roosevelt. I am sure none of us them 'foresaw the world prominence to which he would rise, but looking back on those years, one cannot but remember the courageous gaiety of temperament and ability to get on with different kinds of people which were later elements in his immense achievements...
...summoned by a nurse to be X-rayed, to have a needle injected into my arm, or to have my leg pulled on the first floor), having the previous year been captain of the freshman crew in which, believe it or not, the stroke-oar position was occupied by none other than the now "first citizen of Boston," who, being a sea-dog, should have been was a landlubber. I refer, of course, to the Hon. Charles Francis Adams...
...Washington, General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold paid a call on Harry Truman, cocked a snappy hat over his eye, and went off to shoulder his responsibilities as the newly elected president of the California Fish & Game Commission (salary, none; expense allowance, $10 a day for not more than five days a month...