Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious thoughts about the job. He was Alfred Schindler, a short, bouncy, cheerful conservative who had been Henry Wallace's Under Secretary for 17 months. A onetime feed salesman, he was on a speaking tour of the West Coast when word came from Washington that he was now Acting Secretary. Salesman Schindler bustled into action, sent word to Department heads to "carry on," hopped a plane to Washington. There he stirred no doubts about his ambition: "I'd consider it an opportunity; there's a job to be done...
...Harry Truman sent word from his yacht that he had picked affable W. (for William) Averell Harriman, his Ambassador to London, the wartime Ambassador to Moscow, as his Secretary of Commerce...
...Lord, accused of having deceived the people, of not having yielded unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, for having said that he was able to destroy in three days the temple of Titus. . . ." For Titus, the Vatican paper, which is written in Italian, used the Italian word, Tito...
Ideas of using club facilities to alleviate the housing crisis in a small degree were shelved for the time being on the word of Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 that the problem was "not pressing enough" to warrant breaking the rule...
Engineers all over the world will soon thrill to the sight of Lana Turner emanating from one of these remarkable discs. The electronics industry will continue to look to the Crimson for the very latest word. C. P. Slichter '45. H. P. Field '46. T. M. Sanders...