Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perkins deplored the loss of the maids. "I object to the twentieth century and the passing of the amenities of life." He said he did not know what types of mechanized cleaning would be instituted, expressing the desire to "know what this mechanized cleaning is all about...
...swung through Washington expecting rest leave, instead got command of the new Fifteenth Air Force in Italy, engineered the heavy bomb raids on the Axis' Balkan underbelly, notably on Rumania's Ploesti oil refineries. After V-E day, briefly succeeded Curtis Le-May as commander of the Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific, four months later took over as boss of the Air Materiel Command, Wright Field. In 1947, Twining got command of the Alaskan theater, in 1950 became General Van-denberg's Vice Chief of Staff, and in June 1953, Chief of Staff. When Twining, thinking...
...began on the present building, and the collections were moved there two years later. Almost immediately after its foundation, the Museum began to acquire archaeological specimens from sites abroad. Any idea of restricting the Museum's functions merely to the preservation of American collections was soon abandoned. As the twentieth century dawned, anthropology as a field of study began to grow enormously. And the Peabody Museum grew with it into an anthropological center of world-wide importance...
...crash-land on an elephant track, or else be demolished by the flock. Both pilot and wife noted that the Ibis leader seemed especially trained for his performance, and speculated that he may have been sent out by some group intent on ridding the world of perhaps the Twentieth Century's most talented author...
...Gonzales to launch his comeback against the world's second-best player (after Kramer), Frank Sedgman. Pancho dropped the first set, 3-6. Then he began to find the range with his booming serve, the fastest (112.88 m.p.h.) ever recorded electronically. He finally broke through in the twentieth game of the second set on his third set-point, to win it 11-9. Playing with a concentration he had seldom shown either as an amateur or a pro, Pancho stuck to his big guns and finally won the two-hour match, taking the deciding set 13-11. Next night...