Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...
V.M.I, and Harvard graduate who headed a wartime branch of Army intelligence, was hand-picked by Souers as his successor. He was carefully trained for the post through 28 months as Souers' principal assistant...
Some bad financial advice prompted Treasurer of the U.S. Georgia Neese Clark to sell all her U.S. Government bonds. Now she can't buy any new ones, she disclosed in Washington. Before taking the post, she said, attorneys advised her that it was illegal for the Treasurer to hold any U.S. Government securities. She learned too late that the Treasurer may keep any U.S. bonds already owned when assuming the post, may not buy any new ones after taking office...
Eben Roy Alexander, 50, born in Omaha, was educated at St. Louis University, entered journalism in 1921 as a reporter on the St. Louis Star, four years later went to the Post-Dispatch, and in 1939 joined TIME as a Business writer...
Guanaco Country. Like his father, young Bridges was determined to learn the" Indians' language, which was "infinitely richer and more expressive than English or Spanish." By the time his father had resigned the missionary post and moved his family about 40 miles down the channel to Harberton, where he started a sheep and cattle ranch, young Bridges was able to make out most of what the Yahgan Indians were talking about. But an even bigger challenge confronted him. In rugged, unexplored northeastern Tierra del Fuego lived the fierce Ona tribe. Naked under their calf-length, guanaco-skin capes...