Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...etcher made pencil sketches and the President talked, smoked, worked over his papers, Artist Valderrama studied the President's special color for an hour and fifteen minutes. Then he beamed, nodded, found the President "very good-very natural." When reporters asked him the color of President Roosevelt: "Natural rose with a touch of fine grey," replied admiring Dr. Valderrama...
Steve Madey will probably be vying with Tom Lussen of Yale in the pole-vault. Lussen topped the timber at 12 feet, 6 inches at the Mill rose games. Steve was right up with him through 12 feet, but his pole broke when he was on the verge of adding the extra half foot...
...gift of a revolver, which he showed the Lama how to use. At Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed and stoned by pilgrims. The expedition took two years, gave Colonel Mannerheim a reputation as a scientist as well as a soldier, made him a commander of Uhlans. In 1913 he rose to be commander of the Tsar's Uhlan bodyguard. When the war broke out he was a major general...
Even before he became head of the Defense Council, he had spied out promising young officers in the Army, had them sent to France and Germany to study military science. Back in Finland, these men rose quickly to key positions, worked out in detail the tactics Mannerheim laid down. When the war began and he returned as Commander in Chief of all of Finland's armed forces, they knew what they...
...mental patients are alcoholics. In 1920, the first bone-dry Prohibition year, the number of admissions to mental hospitals dropped from 85 per 100,000 of the population to an all-time low of 72. Prohibition did it, says Dr. Dayton. By 1921, when bootlegging had begun, admissions rose to 77; the following year they climbed to 82. Dr. Dayton, who firmly believes that liquor makes lunatics, accuses psychiatrists of neglecting this important problem...