Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Garfield ("Halfway") Gardiner ordered that they must not be called "draftees" or "conscripts," and that all heavy camp work must be done by Canadian regulars. Reason: in the short period of training no time could be wasted. An emergency at Long Branch Camp occurred when the automatic potato-peeling machine failed to arrive in time and some of the men had to be asked to sit down with knives and peel potatoes...
...think they sounded remarkably like an outfit they had heard before: Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. What with pretty blondes, earnestly tooting their trombones and horns, they looked very different. The 14-year-old Negro Trumpeter William B. Homer (TIME, June 24) took his high notes like John Peel...
...Floyd K. Haskell '37, of Morristown, N. J.; Frank W. Hatfield '38, of Ashland, Pa.; Christopher Huntington '32, Assistant in German; Francis Keppel '38, Assistant Dean of Harvard College; George F. Lowman '38, of New Canaan, Conn.; George von L. Meyer Jr. '38, of Hamilton; Fred W. Peel Jr. '39, of Danville, Ky.; Allen E. Puckett '39, Assistant in Applied Mechanics; Robert E. Rogers '38, of Chicago, III.; Rich-H. Sullivan '39, of Marietta, O.; Oscar Sutermeister '32, of Kansas City, Mo.; Donald C. Thompson A.M. '35, Instructor in English; James Tobin '39, of Champaign, III.; and Caspar W. Weinberger...
...with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British Embassy Counselor Sir Noel Charles, while the Chicago Daily News's John...
...French revolution delayed reform. But when reform came it was not through violent revolution, as elsewhere in Europe, but through the Parliamentary process and the talents of English statesmen. Adams' story includes many instances of the way in which those talents opened up modern civilization; e.g., Sir Robert Peel's inauguration of the police force, Sir Rowland Hill's invention of postage stamps...