Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of World War II veterans will not reach retirement age until around 1990, and to many of them Demagogue Rankin's bill simply meant filling up the gravy boat again for World War I servicemen. Such veterans' groups as the V.F.W. and American Veterans Committee howled in dismay. Even the American Legion leadership, which has sometimes mistaken the public treasury for its own, remained guardedly silent...
With a pair of enormous binoculars dangling from his neck, President Harry Truman trotted around Maryland's Andrews Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders...
This slowness is not the fault of the Lamont staff. It is part of the problem which bookstores around the Square have been struggling with for at least thirty years--there are many instructors who do not prepare their reading lists in time for the Library and the bookstores to obtain the books for the beginning of the term. The situation this year is probably no worse than in the past, but no better...
More than a thousand cheering spectators gathered yesterday afternoon in front of the Lampoon Building, and threw water and sawdust around as the Lampoon "seceded from the civilized world...
...programme" began before a rapidly-growing crowd at 2 p.m. as the Lampoon force of pink-shirted, black-helmeted militia armed with wooden rifles and backed up by a jeep bearing a beer keg set off on a demonstration march around Lowell and the Block-house...