Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg, imbued with a sense of "terrible urgency," and with most of the Senate behind him, drove hard for swift action. But against him a handful lined up in relays to argue, haggle, hold back. From the crowded galleries, spectators' attention focused on the massive figure of Big Van, on his feet most of the time, parrying questions, thrusting home his answers, meeting objections & complaints. When he left the floor, Massachusetts' able young Henry
...biology laboratories had jumped from 72? to $2.25 a dozen. The biggest expenses: more buildings and higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
Yale Alternates: Allen, Calboun, Soper, Clapp, Guernsey, Armour, Read, Van Dyke...
...lack of practice and experience is quite serious," Bennett admitted, "but all our men have played the game before," First teamer Sandy Calhoun played for a Manila team in 1941 and also for Andover while Emil Van Peborgh got some experience in the Argentine. Bennett has playing time behind him at the Squadron "A" indoor area in New York. On the second string, Tim White, brother of two former Harvard players, played in Cleveland; Tom Calhoun, brother of Sandy, also rode in Manila; Emery Houghton wielded the mallet in Arizona. "Unfortunately some of us haven't been on a horse...
...Blake, Jr., Charles D. Bottenfield, David A. Brockway, Alexander J. Calla, Frederick R. Coburn, James N. Douglass, Robert A. Feldman, Frederick M. Fialkow, Roy M. Goodman, William G. B. Graham, John T. Hazel, Arthur Dwight Hyde, Jr., George D. Jackson, Edward R. Kane, Kenneth Keniston, V. Bruce LaSala, William van H. Mason, David G. Nathan, A. Werner Pleus, Roger V. Pugh, Jr., John P. Rice, Jr., Henry M. Silviera, Jr., John Talbot, Jr., Robert E. Tomasello, B. David Waring, and Jeffrey Watkins...