Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a couple of weeks ago Ed was elected president of Rotary. But the boys had to get along without Ed at the Tuesday luncheons at the Claypool because he was off traveling. Ed's the kind of a fellow who, when he decides to go some place, throws some socks and shaving stuff into a bag and starts. Eighteen months ago he sold his business (chocolate-covered cherries) and decided to see some of the world, maybe combine traveling with a little business. Ed asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for a visa to Russia...
...visa to Russia," he told the men at the Soviet Intourist Agency in Helsinki. "I want a ticket. How do I go? By boat? By train?" The Russians scratched their heads. "Where I come from," mused Ed, "when people want to go some place, they go." The Russians asked who he was. "I told them," says Ed, "that I was the most important man in the world, an American taxpayer." The Russians got him an airplane ticket...
...London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
...Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (see MILESTONES) was a figure that had been out of public sight for five months. Vyacheslav Molotov, variously rumored to be ill, busy at a secret job or out of favor, was obviously still No. 2 man in the U.S.S.R. With Stalin absent he had the place of honor among the mourners. Close by him was pudgy Georgi Malenkov, confirming by his position that in the U.S.S.R. hierarchy he had risen...
...liberal education was all right as far as it went, but Wright thought something more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...