Word: willises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Distress & Surprise. The Republican strategy conceived by Millikin was intended simply to head off the George amendment with a more palatable substitute. The George amendment would drain $2.4 billion from the Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the...
Willis E. Lamb Jr., professor of physics at Stanford University .... Sc.D.
Before the war, Bentinck-Smith's occupations were literary in one form or another, and the the prospect of military service was not an appealing one. "I was," he recalls, "a green, innocent fellow from Harvard; a guy, more a writer than a warrior, who found himself on a battleship...
Over the years many similar though smaller plans for Chicago have died through lack of interest. What inspires Chicagoans about the Rubloff-Owings concept is the fact that influential businessmen are behind the project. Among them: Hughston M. McBain, chairman of Marshall Field & Co., Willis D. Gale, chairman of Commonwealth...
...15year-old who flaunts her charms with the naturalness of a dolphin showing off alongside. Before this gets ironed out, it becomes plain that Author Taylor has made almost as close a study of the jealous wife as he has of his Cap Cod types. Best friends of the Willises are the Bensons, whose "detestation of each other had gone so far that they no longer got on each other's nerves but were, in fact, rather good friends...