Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titles of her unexceptionable books (101 Greatest Mystery Stories, It's Always Tomorrow, Gone With the Wind). They got a careful eyeful of Mrs. Truman's oyster white corner bedroom and the President's big bedroom with the blue-canopied bed. In the next-door oval study, on the glass-topped desk, now knickknackless, they spied the 1945 annual of Independence (Mo.) High School, dedicated to Harry Truman...
...also discovered a second sort, of an oval figure. . . . Comparing them with a cheese mite, which may be seen to move with the naked eye, I make the proportion of one of these small water creatures to a cheese mite to be like that of a bee to a horse...
Following their victory on the rain-drenched Tufts oval, Coach Mikkola's runners and field-men have set their sights on the New England AAU Championships, which will be held Friday evening, June 15, in Manning Bowl, Lynn...
After his mother's arrival, Harry Truman spent as little time as possible in his oval office, did much visiting with his mother, wife, sister, mother-in-law, and another family guest, Brother-in-Law Fred Wallace. For the first time as President he let a work day go by without calendar appointments...
...Washington, in the chill grey morning, President Harry Truman (who had just spent his first night in the White House), entered the oval study, flanked by his family, his aides, his Cabinet. It was his 61st birthday. He had had his speech ready for a week. In undramatic fashion, which served to emphasize the anticlimactic nature of the occasion, he first read his speech to 200 newsmen. Then, at 9 a.m., he went on the radio. In a clear and quiet voice, he announced the victory in Europe: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with...