Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...football managerial competition, one of the toughest in College, is a two year affair. Of the dozen or so Freshman candidates, five are chosen to compete their Sophomore year. These are required to assist in spring practice, and report back for work early in September, along with the Varsity team...
...growing squadron of motor torpedo boats, getting a sea test in rough water. Returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard at nightfall each day with his five waterbugs, handsome Lieut. Earl Stevens Caldwell, youngest (and lowest-ranking) squadron commander in the Navy, was able to put down a favorable report. The new PTs (patrol torpedo boats) were as seaworthy as the designer of their prototype, famed Britisher Hubert Scott-Paine, had said they were. In 15-ft. waves they charged along at 40 knots, in smooth seas smashed along at better than 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report...
...through a four-hour luncheon with Hitler, Ribbentrop, Keitel and others. That evening he entertained the Germans at a dinner and reception at the Soviet Embassy. Having listened for two full days and publicly committed himself to nothing, Comrade Molotov next day took a train back to Russia to report to his boss man. At the border he sent a bread-&-butter telegram to Hitler...
...Carnegie Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 20 Progressive Educators gathered last week to draft a momentous report. It was to tell the results of the Progressive Education Association's famed "Eight-Year Study." The study had cost $500,000 of Carnegie and Rockefeller money. On it, Progressive Educators had staked their reputations and possibly the future of Progressive Education. Last week they had a verdict...
...passage quoted above from President Conant's Class Report expressed his dislike of the distractions and interferences with normal University life, produced by war and by the emotional excitements associated with recruiting a volunteer army. If Mr. Gregg will put alongside of that statement President Conant's persistent efforts in the present emergency in behalf of a Selective Training Act under which the hullabaloo of drumming up recruits was to be replaced by an orderly selection of men for the tasks for which they are best fitted, small ground for a charge of inconsistency would-be found...