Word: containment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have had to handle in recent years. One of the largest problems of the Office is making sure that all the information on alumni is up-to-date, and every time that a correction comes in for a graduate's address or occupation, all the file cards that contain his name have to be changed, while new metal plates have to be made for the mechanical files...
...rain, which has filled the excavation pit with water, necessitating electric pumps to empty it. The foundations when built will go down 22 feet below the surface, which is an unusual depth for a building of this type. This is due to the fact that the basement will contain two floors of book-stacks...
...Letters Department, inaugurated 20 months after the magazine first appeared, be 15 years old. The department was founded out of necessity. Almost from the magazine's inception, each issue evoked hundreds of pertinent communications, from which the Editors decided to print "excerpts . . . selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME." In two essential respects the material printed in TIME'S new Letters Department differed from all previous letter columns: 1) no irrelevant personal pleadings were countenanced, 2) but no admissible and generally interesting point was left unanswered...
...again lamented the absence of a clear statement of naval policy, Chairman Vinson interrupted with a reply that to some extent at least served to quiet fears that the Navy was to be used to help England police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time...
Less than 1% of U. S. churches use alms bags. Such bags, stretched on wooden frames, contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...