Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hallowe'en motif was used for decorating the building and the wives and husbands provided entertainment for the affair. Mrs. Charles Van Voorhis sang several numbers to the accompaniment of planist Ens. Hubert Donaldson; a 12-year-old girl, Elaine Burke, performed tap and acrobatic dancing numbers; and a musical trio was accompanied by 1/c Yeoman Howard Locke. It included Mrs. Ben Hardy, Mrs. Earl Canfield and Mrs. Lee Mills. Ens. Jack Reichart was master of ceremonies...
Deduction. In Los Angeles, Arnulfo Perez reported that two men had hustled him into a black-paneled van, driven him several blocks, taken $9 from him, and thrown him out. Perez added: "I knew then that it wasn't a genuine patrol wagon...
They pushed westward toward Pompeii's poppy-splashed, bomb-battered ruins so fast they finally were in the van of the American Fifth Army. At Scafati where a group of American correspondents were also out in front of the troops, they were held up by a rear-guarding German tank...
...newfangled ideas which old-fashioned Henry Ford has never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy-haired Eugene Turrenne Gregorie, boss of the body-design division; quiet, patient Cornelius Willett Van Ranst, who helped develop the Ford airplane motor which now powers Ford-made tanks...
Transatlantic's 64-page debut fell short of the prospectus. Author Van Doren's discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...