Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Navy, then with the NDAC. It was getting dark when Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then came an unexpected summons to one of the rare (three or four) nonscheduled press conferences the President has held in the past four years. Grabbing pencils & paper, they made for the office, were soon scribbling notes on the best White House story in weeks...
...Sachsenhausen Pastor Niemoller has been placed on a regime of half rations, double heavy labor, solitary confinement. Rock-breaking, roadbuilding, ditch-digging, harsh treatment are fast wearing him out. He has not been beaten, but has told his wife on the rare visits she is permitted that he has seen others beaten unconscious. "When I write the address, 'Concentration Camp, Sachsenhausen,' " said one daughter, "then I am always very proud...
...high school, the Leibovitz twins made one of their rare joint pictures, a mural on which right-handed Freda worked leftward, southpaw Ida in the opposite direction until they met in the centre. The whole thing looked like one artist's work. When the Leibovitz twins, tramping through Philadelphia streets, painted the same subject, their conceptions were almost identical. In the contests in which...
...number of 18th century tracts, which once belonged to Robert Treat Paine, have been presented by John B. Paine '91, Helen P. Kimball, Georgina P. Fisher, Mary A. Winsor, and Frank C. Paine '18. One rare item is "A Prospective Plan for the Battle of Lake George," 1775, presenting a detailed view of the action...
Thomas W. Lamont '92, of New York City, presented a rare collection of books, manuscripts and broadsides relating to the Spanish Armada, described by Mr. Metcalf as "a collection of scope and importance so great that it may well inspire a reappraisal of the history of the Defeat of the Armada...