Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation since last March...
...opening address, Attorney Cross indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
Colonel Charles P. Summerall, Jr., who heads the Army ROTC unit, was appointed professor of Military Science and Tactics; Major Jarvis R. Kingston was appointed professor of Air Science and Tactics; Major Emil Kremer became associate professor of Air Science and Tactics. Commander Joseph P. Fitz-Patrick was named associate professor of Naval Science, and Lieutenant Charles E. Stastny will become assistant professor of Naval Science...
Toccata in D major Frescobaldi Symphony No. 3 Schubert Concerto Grosso in D minor Vivaldi An Outdoor Overture Copland...
Conversely, the selection which probably presented the least number of technical problems--Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso--was least good. Perhaps this was due to the difficulty of integrating amateur strings when they are unsupported by the rest of the orchestra. But though ragged, there were no major shortcomings, and this familiar work received adequate treatment...