Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among 250 guests at a luncheon in Sir Emsley's honor were Winston Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook, John Jacob Astor...
...Britain's Fighter Command: to take the air when raids threaten, knock the enemy's bombers out of the skies. Last week, having assigned four flying major generals to command the Air Forces (Northeast, James E. Chancy; Northwest, John F. Curry; Southeast, Barton K. Yount; Southwest, Jacob E. Fickel), the Army announced its interceptor commanders: four brigadier generals-all slim and wiry, as pursuit pilots should...
...published Jacob's Room; in 1925 Mrs. Dalloway; in 1927 To The Lighthouse. All three were stream-of-consciousness novels. To some readers they didn't always make sense, but they made her name and parts of them almost made music. Like a musician, she liked to strike the mood of her books with a borrowed lyric on which she improvised infinite variations...
Mallory R. Smith, Greenville, S.C., Sherman M. Tonkonow, Meriden, Conn., Ralph B. Sussman, Newark, N. J., Norman D. Blotner, Beverly, Mass., Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, R. I., George H. Fraser, Monticello, Ia., Isadore Gromfine, Buffalo, N. Y., Murray Horwitz, Hollis, L. I., N. Y., Paul Melrose, Hartford, Conn., Jacob Rabinowitz, Catskill, N. Y., William P. Reiss, Newark, N. J., and Joseph S. Rogan, Roxbury, Mass...
Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...