Word: gladding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night sky, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships were joined with the Royal Navy in a patrol line across choppy North Atlantic seas. From Her Majesty's frigate Undaunted, which was with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower was returning to Paris, where an emotional welcome and the most...
...cousin, vice-president Theodore Roosevelt '80, was in Cambridge visiting Professor Lowell, so he and another cousin called T.R. up and asked to see him. The vice-president said he was going to lecture in Lowell's Gov 1 course in Sanders the next morning. He would be glad to see them afterward. F.D.R. raced for the CRIME and reported his story. "Young man," the managing editor is supposed to have replied, "you hit page one tomorrow morning." The scoop appeared, Sanders Theatre was swamped, and F.D.R. gained election that June...
Roosevelt did not eat at the large common dining halls in college. For the freshman year, prep school graduates generally ate at their own special tables in Cambridge eating houses. "Our table, you will be glad to hear, began at lunch yesterday," he wrote to his mother, "and the crowd is a very nice one and next to the table of some of the other Grotonians...
With the Russians blowing up our primrose path with Sputniks, now more than ever is the time to be glad that we are living in a country where some of the scientists spend their time working for human happiness, to ease human suffering, and to make life more enjoyable. I would rather go down in a ship that had room for all mankind than stay aboard one that floated on the backs of oppressed peoples and found its greatest achievement in 40 years to be a potential weapon of destruction...
...This is a wonderful subject for a novel of manners. The organization man and the impact of the corporation on our social life are some of the most significant facts of the American scene today. I am glad writers are beginning to pay serious attention to them. There is nothing easier to do than make fun of the president of an advertising agency or these damned business conferences, don't you know--conventions in Atlantic City. I think they're both bad and good; I haven't very many fixed opinions on them...