Word: wider
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
Jehangir "Muggy" Mugaseth, also a junior, is a stylist similar to Nawn, who learned squash in the shorter, wider English courts and is now adapting himself to the American game. Aliston Flagg, Dave Symmes, and Wister Wood are engaged in a close battle for the ninth and last position on the 'A' team, with Flagg currently on top. Both individually and as a team, the 1950 squashmen show great promise; they have started perfectly and could conceivably wind up with one of the top varsity records of the year...
...some fronts the no man's land between the armies was growing wider in spite of the slow, tentative advance by U.N. forces. Beyond Kapsan the U.S. troops pushed through Red lines to the Yalu River, effectively dividing enemy forces. A baffled Pentagon spokesman, asked by newsmen to explain Chinese strategy in Korea, described it as a "holding operation...
Many of those who predicted Tuesday's results misjudged the importance of "McCarthyism" to the voters. The Democrats will not make this mistake again, and the Republicans can be expected to take full advantage of their position. While this may mean a wider split between the liberal section of the party--which opposed McCarthy's methods--and the conservative element, which backed him, the Administration cannot hope for a halt in attacks on the loyalty of its officials. And Democratic Congressmen will probably now he weaker in their rebuttals...
...Rathskeller features fine acoustics in a genuine upholstered celler--painted walls, exposed pipes and girders, and kitchen chairs. If places like this keep open, Boston will soon have a wider selection of quality jazz than either New York or Chicago...