Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving westward through Pennsylvania in The Federal, the private railroad car in which Woodrow Wilson rode to victory in 1912, he proclaimed out of the past that the Democrats had beaten the Republicans to social security, the minimum wage, federal aid to the farmer. Meanwhile, his managers had arranged for a national TV hookup so that he could reply to Eisenhower's speeches in Cleveland and Lexington. At Pittsburgh Stevenson stepped before the TV cameras for a speech billed as a "turning point" of the campaign, but his sharp thrusts at Eisenhower and the Republican social-welfare record were...
...author of the Professor and the Fossil is one of those scholars mentioned earlier who found that Mr. Toynbee rode rough shod through his field, cultivating it with error and prejudice...
...Biggie rode to fame as one of the architects of the revolution that was to remake Michigan State. Under the leadership of President John A. Hannah, the little land-grant college of 7,000 students was growing into a big university (this year's enrollment: 19,000). But Hannah was having trouble lining up a large enough faculty; most of the men he wanted had never heard of Michigan State. A good football team, the president reasoned, would at least bring recognition. "If it meant the betterment of Michigan State," said Hannah then, "our football team would play...
...social legislation that later served as model for the New Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...
...child. Wells, who grew up to write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self again. The boy's judgement still stands...