Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Senate Armed Services Committee has already discussed U.M.S. while on the U.M.T. bill. But no U.M.S. bill has been introduced as it would have to be to get the program into effect. Under the present draft law, of course, General Hershey can set up any system of deferments he pleases. Thus the Trytten plan could go through without Congressional approval; but Conant's proposal must go through the legislature, since it is entirely...
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Some companies manufacture a set that has amplifiers on both ears, but still only one mike, thus acting like one ear transmitting sounds to both auditory lobes in the brain. Under this system, all sounds seem to come from the same place and the listener cannot tell where to direct his attention...
...first quarter, Eliot moved slowly downfield, hindered only by a fumble recovered by Leverett's Sam Paschal. After Levered played out their four downs, Elephant Charlie Cabot set up the score with a 10 yard run for a first down. Steve Goodie, on an end sweep, skirted the Levered line into the end zone. Eliot failed to convert after every touchdown...
...long series of novels he put out before the war lampooning the gay young set of England was shot through with affection for what he was supposedly lacerating. All the people in these early novels are delightfully eccentric, delightfully amoral, delightfully loose in the head. They are so delightful, in fact, that one often loses sight of the fact that they are amoral and loose in the head--in a word decadent...