Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...
...students in the Army to continue working for their degrees, and in giving every soldier the opportunity to obtain an education while working in an otherwise perhaps humdrum job, tall, lanky, pragmatic, brilliant, New Englander Spaulding is doing one of the most significant jobs of anyone in Washington's Pentagon labyrinth...
...Spaulding is a long, lean, burning enthusiast for the job of teaching soldiers. When he burns hot enough he bursts out with "Godfrey!" Sometimes he even goes as far as "Gosh!" He is one of the fastest coffee-and-sandwich racers down the illimitable corridors of Washington's Pentagon Building. A pragmatic New Englander, he was Harvard's dean of education before the Army took...
Shoulder to Shoulder. Before she went to England, Colonel Hobby sat in her office in the Pentagon Building and with an air of patent-unhappiness parried questions about the failure of woman recruiting. Beside her sat the Army Bureau of Public Relations' Major Francis Frazier-"to protect her," he said...
...Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman...