Word: setback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College skaters received a major setback last night with the rejection of a proposed $1,000,000 rink by a subcommittee of the Cambridge Veterans' War Memorial Advisory Committee. Other plans included demolition of Memorial Hall or the clubs on Mt. Auburn st. to make way for a recreational center...
...General Lucius Clay declared that the Berlin Airlift could be expanded and continued indefinitely (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If it used the interval to apply the lessons it had learned from the Berlin crisis, the West would come to a conference with the Russians with little reason to fear a setback...
...great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, defeated in the Alabama primaries, suffered another setback; a judge refused to dismiss the paternity suit against him, ordered it tried on its merits...
Wentworth Institute let the Freshman nine have two runs in the first inning yesterday merely to make the game interesting--for the visitors added seven tallies to the three they had registered in the first and won going away, 10 to 2. It was the Yardlings' fifth straight setback...