Word: rimless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve-story building on Manhattan's brash and busy 14th Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike man named Ernest Ivison Pugmire sits at the command center of a great social welfare program. His brown eyes behind rimless spectacles are the eyes of a gentle, dedicated man. His martial, stiff-collared uniform is the uniform of a militant faith. On the walls of his large, comfortable office hang the pictures of the generals, from William Booth down, who have directed the army's battles...
Outside the President's office, Board Chairman Carroll Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
...Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
...right light (preferably dim), gaunt, greying Lorenzo Emil Parry, 50, wore the austere look of a doctor of divinity. His manner was grave, his clothes sober and he affected rimless octagonal glasses. One starlit night last week, Lorenzo Parry strode confidently across the gothic, ivied quadrangle of Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion, smashed a window in the administration building and went to work...
...Gary, Ind. She had taught French and Spanish for 24 years, mostly at Lew Wallace High School, had once been president of the Gary branch of the American Association of University Women, and had seen Paris and South America. At 45, Miss Cheever surveyed her world sensibly through rimless eyeglasses and lived a rich, full, civic life...