Word: optional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second part of the exam consists of one essay chosen from several options and is designed to test more particularly the student's comprehensive knowledge of history and his ability to think critically on historical generalizations. At the end of the senior year, honors men also have a special field exam and, at the option of the Examiners, an oral exam...
Though he had asked for a two-year extension and a stiffening of federal rent control, Truman hailed the new, 15-month local option bill as a triumph of "the joint efforts of the Congress and the Administration." The National Association of Real Estate Boards, in equally strange fashion, publicly praised the new rent law though they had privately complained to the President against it. The C.I.O., to confound the confusion, called the rent law "counter to the wishes of the people as expressed by President Truman . . ." The C.I.O. apparently hadn't got the word yet; at the moment...
...weeks of its polished existence, the Revue has climbed to a 50.6 Hooperating (bettered only by TV's two top attractions, Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey). Last week, it earned the most solid accolade of all: its sponsor, the Admiral Corp. (radios, television sets, refrigerators), picked up the option for another six months. It was no small tab. The Revue is one of the costliest things of its kind ($25,000 a week...
...Vienna, Bridegroom Tyrone Power made an important announcement to the press: his bride, Linda Christian (she once had a movie contract with MGM, which dropped her option more than a year ago), will "have enough to do" now that she is married, and so is officially giving up her "career...
...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...