Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidence of this same enthusiasm for a TIME-produced English-teaching radio program greeted TIME'S Circulation Director, Francis Pratt, wherever he went in Central and South America last spring - and Mexico's Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera assured us that such a program would "meet with complete success not only in Mexico but throughout Latin America"-because "one of the best ways for the peoples of this hemisphere to strengthen their solidarity is through learning each other's language...
...Main Line investment banker, Samuel K. McConnell Jr., 42, to succeed a fellow Republican. The city's heterogeneous Second District (including a Negro section and fashionable Rittenhouse Square) has been edging back toward the Republican column in recent elections. Last week it replaced a Democrat with Joseph M. Pratt, 52, floodlight manufacturer and G.O.P. ward boss...
Sergeant Howard D. Pratt of Spokane, Wash, lost his way, entered a cave, met two German soldiers. Hand grenade ready, he asked the way back. They told him. On second thought, he ordered them to come along as guides. At once, 19 other Germans emerged, surrendered, returned with Sergeant Howard...
...foregoing are powered with liquid-cooled (Rolls-Royce and Allison) engines of substantially less than 2,000 h.p. Makers of the air-cooled engines (Wright and Pratt & Whitney) which drive U.S. bombers and transports, also produce fighter engines. Except for the new Grumman Hellcat, whose Pratt & Whitney engine is still secret as to power, the following types are driven by air-cooled Pratt & Whitney 2,000s...
...welter of contracts, and awards, Standard Stock Catalogs, and Pratt and Whitney engine spares . . . out of the chaos of birthday parties at ten o'clock, baseball games at three, telephone calls in the alcove with wet wash slapping one in the face, lusty singing through the streets of Cambridge to the continued amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs...