Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also announced was the retirement, to take effect August 31, of Philip Putnam Chase '00, lecturer on History and tutor in the Department of History. Once an assistant dean of Harvard College, he has been associated with the University in varying capacities since...
...rafts Lieut. Newel Putnam Wyman of Canandaigua, N.Y., weak with cold and exhaustion, saw what was coming. He made up his mind too. As the Catalina, with sparks winnowing from her pipes, drew near, he gave the signal all Navy pilots know: the wave of the arms that means "Don't land...
...plane watchers on Manhattan's skyscrapers scanned the skies for the Luftwaffe (and sometimes thought they saw it), Metropolitan Museum officials feverishly sought some shelter where their millions of dollars' worth of art would be safe from Nazi bombs. Even earlier, various vacant buildings in Westchester and Putnam Counties had been inspected and found wanting. An abandoned shale mine near Kingston seemed safe but too damp. At last a Metropolitan trustee suggested Whitemarsh Hall...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York's Dutchess, Orange and Putnam Counties was jubilantly pessimistic about the chances of his most famed constituent, predicted: ". . . Roosevelt . . . will not carry a single state north of the Mason-Dixon line...
REBELLION IN THE BACKLANDS-Euclides da Cunha. Translated by Samuel Putnam-University of Chicago...