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During the war, the Navy asked Eurich to direct preparation of its courses and tests. He later became a vice president of Stanford University, then came East to pull 29 scattered colleges together into the just-born State University of New York. Wilson, who couldn't leave questions alone, became a pollster. He directed wartime surveys for OWI and SHAEF, later joined Elmo Roper as a partner in International Public Opinion Research...
After months of indecision, confusion and delay, the U.S. could sense a new feeling of quickening confidence and growing strength. There were still the usual creakings, complaints and outraged squawks from a many-jointed democracy trying to pull itself together for a united effort. But there could no longer be any doubt that the U.S. was settling down to the job of rearmament and making real progress...
...blue water and palm trees he would look at guns, planes and tanks. He would tour factories and arsenals as the Commander in Chief inspecting the U.S.'s military might. No one could object to that. And somewhere along the road, say in sun-baked Arizona, he might pull into a siding for a day or two or a long weekend of rest...
...Delaware Street. Margaret's mother, a reticent woman who has never made any bones about preferring Independence to Washington, did her best to pull the White House blinds down. "I will always be a part of Missouri," said Bess Truman. In Missouri, "nice people" do not peer into other nice people's windows...
...varsity skiers will have a chance to pull themselves up from eighth place in the final events of the three-day Middlebury Winter Carnival this afternoon. The Crimson is only two points behind fifth place Vermont...