Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only four days remaining before Der Tag, Dick Harlow concentrated on offense in yesterday's workout, stressing both passing and running plays in a scrimmage less practice session...
...tough summer for Eisenhower and his staff, quartered in a neighborhood of hotels and flats in London, on a square dubbed "Eisenhower Platz." The job of preparing this U.S. Army for an invasion was no sinecure. The E.T.O. (European Theater of Operations), official tag for the 1942 A.E.F., was an amateur army of mechanics, salesmen, bartenders, boxers, bond salesmen, cowboys, lawyers. How many there were was always a guarded secret, but convoys dumped thousands upon thousands on Britain's shores. They had learned something about tactics in maneuvers back home, but they were still far from ready for combat...
...train moved up into Minnesota's lake country, through the little cattle towns of North Dakota, through Montana and high up into the Rockies. When the train stopped at Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
Something new has been added. That is the seasoned opinion of a man who has taken every opportunity to sip tea and wander through receiving lines since that terrifying day at the beginning of his Freshman year when he wandered into Phillips Brooks House with a little tag on his coat...
...with valuable parts. And if the government can pay for a veterinarian's education in wartime it can certainly help to train its peacetime leaders. The United States has learned that the federal government must assume responsibility for making the economy work. It is time the nineteenth century's tag-line "equal educational opportunities" was modernized. America is the only country in the world whose educational system has no national coherence. Through the present emergency bill the national government can enter the field of education and make sure its future leaders regardless of financial status will receive college training. Some...