Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...miles away at Yonpo airfield, U.S. troops went grimly about the business of burning or blowing up barracks, buildings and other installations which the Chinese, whether they arrived in the morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars...
...Washington, Federal Security Administrator Oscar L. Ewing aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...
...change was not made merely to please the girls. Faced with the draft, the college foresaw a drastic slash in enrollment, and President Richard D. Weigle feared that it might have to drop 25% of its faculty. Even now, St. John's has only 165 students, two-thirds of capacity...
...Ceilings. By late 1949, MacConnell had his new department, plus a headquarters "laboratory" of construction and equipment specimens, e.g.: 18 different types of ceiling, five types of flooring, and just about every shape and size of chair, table and desk a school might need. Meanwhile, MacConnell and his graduate students were busy answering calls for help...
...Times is published in New York, New York, where geography may be a neglected science since many of the inhabitants are convinced that there is no other place. Nevertheless, in a cosmopolitan city like New York, New York, we should think that while the Times's educated readers might require Cairo, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois would be equivalent to Heaven, Universe. There is only...