Word: nook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear demonstration that Harvard is still economizing as usual while colleges with much smaller endowments rally to meet this crisis in education. No less than ten times that number of emergency units, placed on Soldiers Field, along the River, in the Dunster tennis court, and in every nook, and cranny that is not in current use, will fill...
Leave him some fame, his cool Westminster nook...
...when he graduates from high school, enter the service for one year. . . . Not least, I think our young men should do a tour of duty for at least six months as a "police force" in either Germany or Japan. Our secret service should explore every nook and cranny of Germany and Japan so as to make absolutely impossible the building of parts for planes and rockets and other death-dealing machines in small shops all over the nation, to be assembled in a hurry and used to threaten us. This latter point is most important. I can already hear...
...sweetly sequestered nook...
Statisticians control officers are a new breed; a product of this war. As the Air Forces moved overseas into every nook and cranny of the four corners, a new method had to be devised to keep G.H.Q. informed of the conditions in every field. To meet this need the scientists devised the statisticians control officer and the A.A.F. Stat School...