Word: oft
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson renewed Harry Truman's oft-made request for universal military training for all boys between 17 and 20 years old. Politically, U.M.T. had suddenly acquired a lot of congressional support as a fine-looking gesture of preparedness, which, incidentally, had long been demanded by veterans' outfits whose members will go to the polls in November. But militarily, events had taken from U.M.T. whatever value it might once have had. The Administration was asking for it without really wanting...
...Testament (Sheed & Ward; $5). Readers who are familiar with the graceful flights and sudden surprises of Translator Knox's Bible prose will not be disappointed in his mining of the beauties of the Psalms and Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, Job, Jeremiah and Ecclesiastes, whose oft-quoted "Vanity, vanity" passage he renders...
Four blocks from the White House, on the corner of 14th and F Streets, stands the nine-story building of Julius Garfinckel & Co. It is Washington's answer to the oft-repeated charge that the nation's capital is a town of dowdy women. In Gar-nnckel's show windows are strapless pink tulles by Dior, tobacco-colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control...