Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America in 1620, the President and his party went promptly to the U.S.S. Augusta, the battle-tested cruiser which had carried him to Europe. Soon a gleaming, mahogany-trimmed barge from the newly painted battle cruiser H.M.S. Renown chugged alongside. The President shoved off in it, with Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes and Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy...
...Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, to in spire public confidence; 6) a cadet officer hierarchy, based solely on merit; 7) a strong community of spirit, based on absolute honesty. By the time Thayer resigned in 1833, West Point had earned international renown...
...when people ask her, as many do, why with her beauty and renown she does not go back to acting, she declares: "I'm perfectly happy now. I know everybody and I'm recognized in the business world. I don't have to pose for cheesecake and I don't"-unless David O. Selznick, or Hollywood itself, be taken for one-"have to sit on elephants...
...Larry" Fly came to Washington in 1929 by way of Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and private law practice in Manhattan. He joined the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division under President Hoover. There he won national renown by defeating Wendell Willkie in the historic battle of the Tennessee Valley Authority v. Commonwealth & Southern. Said Willkie: "He is the most dangerous man in America-to have on the other side...
...discouraging people who have no essential work from leaving London. . . . Children are already being sent out of the danger areas. This battle may be a somewhat lengthy affair . . . but I am sure of one thing-that London will never be conquered and will never fail, and that her renown, triumphing over every ordeal, will long shine among...