Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with the whole White House staff. Father interrupted his studies at Harvard by taking him along as official photographer on the African game hunt in 1909. Out of college, he sailed away with Father to explore the "River of Doubt" in South America...
...pano-Canadian Blood Transfusion Service during the Spanish Civil War, by his delayed transfusions saved the lives of thousands of wounded Loyalist fighters. His job in China's war, paid for by the Canadian and American Leagues for Peace and Democracy, was surgeon on the medical staff of the Communist Eighth Route Army...
...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
From the Continental come terse, dry bulletins issued by the Army General Staff, and cunning propaganda stories (of plots to restore the Kaiser, failure of German food supplies) concocted by Playwright Giraudoux himself. There, too, in sumptuous rooms that once housed U. S. tourists, censors sit poring over proofs of tomorrow's papers, ferreting out lines that might give information to the enemy...
From a typographical standpoint the fake issue of the News was considered more convincing than that of the Record; however, Gayle Alken III, former CRIMSON editor who is now at Yale and on the News staff, declared for publication that the fraudulent CRIMSON "is the best-looking Yale News we've ever...