Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Crimson outfit is rated on about a par with last year's all powerful aggregation and is a heavy favorite in this afternoon's tilt...
Metronome, which deals exclusively with "modern music and its makers." featured Bradley's outfit in it April number, stating that the recently formed organization combines a rookies fire with a veteran's poise, resulting in a "freshness and crispness found in practically no veteran groups...
...scream for underground bombing shelters in the interior U. S., for permanent anti-aircraft installations at Kansas City and points west, the General Staff in Washington shudders. Remembering that the U. S. Army has fought in China, Siberia, Central America, France, the General Staff has planned an outfit ready to be packed up and sent anywhere. The last place the Army expects to fight is on the U. S. mainland...
Since 1800, the band has also given concerts. In the 18905, when John Philip Sousa headed it, the U. S. Marine Band became one of the best in the world. When Bandmaster Sousa quit to conduct his own celebrated outfit, the Marine Band's baton fell to an Italian named Francesco Fanciulli, who led it for five years. Since then it has had only two conductors, fiddle-playing, German-born William H. Santelmann and jovial, bespectacled, U. S.-born Captain Taylor Branson...
Princeton, which has been variously described as a country club, a college and a university, has made at least two notable gifts to the nation: 1) Woodrow Wilson, 2) the Veterans of Future Wars. The V.F.W. was an inspired outfit which advocated immediate payment of a $1,000 cash bonus to every U. S. citizen who might some day serve in a foreign war (TIME, March 30, 1936). Last fall, with World War II at hand, a prepayment bonus not quite in sight, eight Princetonians formed another society concerned with war: the In & Out Club. They dedicated their new club...