Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished Harvard Business School in 1927, went to work as an assistant to W. T. Holliday, president of Standard Oil of Ohio. While riding Standard's tank trucks and dropping in at filling stations, Swensrud always asked the "Why" for everything, jotted down the answers in a little notebook. He found out so many things that executives who played by ear couldn't answer that he rose swiftly to vice president. He was marked for the top job at Sohio when Gulf hired him away in 1947 as successor to aging President J. F. Drake, who stepped...
...wrote it for an English course at St. Mark's," he replied. The other agent yanked out a notebook, handed it to Adams, and asked the same question. "Yes, I used that for a French course," he answered...
...Good Lord," breathed Lawrence, as he slid back to his chair and scribbled in his notebook. For a few spine-tingling seconds, the 154 reporters could see the big black headline: TRUMAN BACKS IKE FOR PRESIDENT. Then NBC's Frank Bourgholtzer spoke up in disbelief: "Does that mean that if Ike wants to be President, you will help...
...Princeton University Library acquired an arithmetic notebook kept by a 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy back in 1721. Sample problem: "A Certain man and his wife did usually drink out a vessell of beere in 12 dayes and the Husband found by offten experience That his wife being absent it would Last him 20 dayes then. Question is how many dayes the wife would be a drinking it alone...
...July crowd. Sudden bursts of laughter and applause, inspired by crowd antics that had nothing to do with the President's words, rose up. Harry Truman ignored the noise and plodded on, making no-attempt at oratory, never gesturing, rarely raising his eyes from his brown leather notebook. He sought to establish a historical precedent for his limited-war policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear and just as simple as the things for which we fought in the American Revolution. We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent...