Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strictly prohibited. Vandenberg also took a hand in designing the new Air Force blue uniforms-and issued stern orders on the width of trousers, length of tunics and kinds of shoes to be worn. When an Air Force bulletin advised the use of suspenders instead of belts, airmen at Wright Field dubbed him "old braces for britches." In November 1950, when Vandenberg saw that even his senior officers were ignoring his orders on soldierly neatness, he sat down in cold anger and issued the order that ended an era: "Wearing the cap without the soft roll grommet and front spring...
...Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may get the stuff; one gram will be enough for 100,000 tracer doses. ¶ The shortage of nurses would not be half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly jobs, said Marian J. Wright of Detroit's Harper Hospital. A survey showed that 27% of the hospitals studied use nurses to make empty beds, and 18% make them mop floors. ¶ The chance of recovery from schizophrenia, commonest of the serious mental illnesses, has almost doubled in 25 years, the National Association...
Rowing the entire mile and five-sixteenths at the very high stroke of 34 and closing with a final sprint, the Penn varsity lightweight boat nipped Harvard by two seconds to win the Joseph Wright Trophy in the E.A.R.C. regatta Saturday at Princeton...
...reach for glamour should not be too difficult, said Anne, faithfully following her script, since the quality runs in the family: "My grandfather, [Architect] Frank Lloyd Wright, wore only a red sash on his wedding night. That's glamour...
...crash victims, Leo Bergeron and Samuel Wright, injured in Tuesday night's accident, are in the Massachusetts General Hospital with minor fractures. Hospital authorities report that they are in "fair" condition...