Word: pend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Union proposals for a Student Council minority Problems Committee, to work in cooperation with the Intercollegiate Race Relations Board set up at Swarthmore College Saturday, now pend Council action...
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry. Many a weed contains latex: for example, swamp milkweed yields 45 Ib. per acre, goldenrod 75 Ib. But 4,000 Ib. per acre is ten times as much as the average output of Malaya's richest rubber plantations...
Actually he was on his way, at the moment, to the Navy's new training station at Idaho's beautiful Lake Pend d'Oreille. There, in the midst of pine forests where bear and deer roam wild, he examined the bright new barracks and the tent city of 20,000 construction workers...
...first time ever, the Navy is building a training station in the rough-&-tumble Rocky Mountains. The site: Bayview, Idaho, a quiet several-horse town at the southwest end of Lake Pend d'Oreille, some 45 miles northeast of Spokane. Last week, as the citizens of Bayview (pop. 104) stood by goggle-eyed, the first of 10,000 carpenters, masons and plumbers were busily at work on a $20,000,000 base...
...picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats...