Word: button
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...skeptics were yelling up the wrong penstock. By this week, as President Truman headed west to dedicate Grand Coulee and the Columbia Basin project, the dam had long since become the world's greatest single source of electricity. When the President pushes a ceremonial button to start its newest generator (13th of 18 to be installed), Grand Coulee will be producing 1,404,000 kilowatts-enough to supply both Cleveland and Cincinnati with all their power. Yet this amazing torrent of energy will not satisfy the insatiable demand...
...justification of the present clothing scheme rampant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This style did not evolve as the result of a group meeting over a few beers and deciding exactly what a student should wear; it has evolved for the sake of comfort and utility. For example, flannels--no cleaning, button-down shirts--no starch, white bucks--no shine, white socks--no hand washing...
...sophomore race, Chase Nebeker Peterson of Ogden, Utah, and Winthrop House and Richard Totten Button of Englewood, New Jersey, and Lowell House, both Council incumbents, ran away with the election, polling 70 percent of the class vote. Peterson and Button early reached the quota, 204 votes, which guaranteed election under the preferential ballot tabulating. Seven hundred twenty-two voted...
Richard T. Button--Lowell; Student Council Public Relations Committee; Varsity Club...
Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...