Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time taken by the CRIMSON. A competition does, of course, mean that a man has little time left over for leafing. About five evenings a week, one of which will mean the entire evening from 8 till 12 o'clock, are required. Afternoons are left free, and candidates can use them either to study or to chase after stories or to fill their physical education requirements...
...they seem. Believing that prosperity will bring some new company to Pattontown, he advertised "this is not a ghost town-mine operations will resume at an early date." Since Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman has his eye on ghost towns, has begun investigating "shutdown areas" with a view to their use in defense, Frank Moran's optimism may make sense...
Columnist Grafton does not use the word revolution. His formula for "how democracy will defend America": "set [the people] loose and learn from them...
...America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says, why can't we? Let no one worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy as the beginning. Says Democrat Grafton: "Secret contempt for the democratic process is revealed when use is made of the expression that we must be careful not to lose our democratic rights while fighting to protect them." His tough, all-out club-waving version of democracy would make even some New Dealers cringe. Others will recall that Huey Long in one of his prescient moments said...
Fourth-of-July firecrackers began exploding. Major Charles A. DuBois, U.S.A. retired, New York secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution, shrilled that only soldiers and sailors in uniform were permitted to use the military salute. Colonel James A. Moss, U.S.A. retired, president of the United States Flag Association, declared that under the flag code, as modified by the Second National Flag Conference in 1924, the old straight-arm salute was mandatory for school children. Meanwhile New York Post cartoonist Stan MacGovern pointed out other uses of the gesture...