Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This picture of the plane pre-empting the passenger traffic of the steamship shortly after the war was drawn by Edward Pearson Warner, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, now vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The occasion was the 31st Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture (as published, 92 pages...
Suddenly G.B.S. remembered the author's work, paid it an offhand compliment: "[Mr. Cole's] book is good enough for the occasion and better; and nothing I have said about it must be taken as a disparagement. . . . He is, if anything, too modest, for the enormous success of...
Oldtimers on Capitol Hill could not recall a similar event. All of the Congresswomen, the entire delegation from Maine and about 30 members of the press had been invited. The Speaker and other House leaders were asked to drop in. The place: the Capitol dining room of the Speaker of...
In the course of my tour here at Harvard, I have been confronted with every kind of a problem from the anxious twitchings of an expectant father popping into the office at regular five minute intervals for news of "that phone call," to the sad lament of a jilted romeo...
On May 30, 1868, a stalwart, bearded man of military bearing stood bareheaded in Arlington cemetery. Around him stretched 15,000 graves, neatly spaced row on row. Facing the small crowd that had gathered to hear him speak, he paid soldierly tribute to the men who had died in the...