Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another aspect of Texas, the three tourists made a shopping tour of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus specialty store. In San Antonio they talked to Tom Slick, the young Texas oil millionaire who is pumping much of his fortune into three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker...
...show. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
...Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars' worth of rifles and knapsacks" instead of the treaty itself...
Rowing conditions have been close to ideal on the Charles all week, and Tom Bolles' Crimson has taken full advantage of the fact, as witnessed by the fact that Tuesday's time-trial resulted in such excellent time that the actual statistics have been kept a secret from all but the rowers themselves...
Other Harvard entries who might win their events are pole vaulter Bill Lawrence, broad jumper Dave Carter, high jumper Gene Harrigan, and half-miler Al Ruby. John Thorndike, Tom Cameron, Don Trimble and Howie Reed will give Tootell plenty of help in the weights...