Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of the Government Department, was confirmed at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tuesday as chairman of the University's 12-man Committee on General Education...
President Truman immediately asked Congress for price ceilings on both new and old houses, called for priorities which would channel 50% of U.S. building materials into the construction of houses costing $10,000 or less. The ceilings are provided for in a bill by Texas' Wright Patman, now under consideration by Congress...
Reader Workman (Nov. 10, 1924) thought that TIME showed bias in referring to Methodism as a sect; ED. said he preferred sect to denomination because it was a four-letter word. Reader Goler advised us-correctly -that Airman Wilbur Wright died of typhoid, not pneumonia, as TIME had said. A brief dissertation on the subject of Cain's wife led to a longer one on Calvin Coolidge's mistaking (in a speech) a hit by Baseball's Walter Johnson for an error by Shortstop Jackson. ED. agreed that it would be silly to choose a Chief Executive...
...lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel. When Palmer lost, he grimly built a board-and-shingled shack in the lobby of his $2,500,000 hotel, labeled it: "This is what the Grand Pacific is made of." In time, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright ridiculed the gingerbready Palmer House as "an ugly old man whose wrinkles were all in the wrong place...
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