Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Half-Century: F.D.R., Churchill, MacArthur, Stalin, Hitler. Take your pick. I pick Churchill...
...boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about him which would warrant his not being...
Sixty of the absentees are members of Crimson crews, which are training on the Thames River near New London, Connecticut, for the races there against Yale on Friday, June 24. The remaining handful have been permitted to take their exams away because they have been able to persuade Registrar Kennedy that they have very special reasons for doing...
...Europe months ago on a boat which will leave at 10 a.m. today. Other absentees include a geologist, who took an exam last week in Mexico City, and a freshman in the NROTC Program who took his History I final in California because the Navy ordered him to take the Pacific summer training cruise, which started from San Francisco yesterday...
...lucky for the man in California that the History I exam was scheduled in the afternoon. This meant that he could take the exam on the West Coast at 10:15 a.m. Monday, while he would have had to take it at 5:15 a.m. if it had been scheduled in the morning here...