Word: assign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important item on the agenda is the Council fund drive, carried on during Registration in Mem Hall. Treasurer John P. Bunker '42 will present a report on the status quo and will assign the tasks of dunning the tight-fisted students to their various representatives...
During a recent Diet session Japan's spouting little Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka seemed to assign to the Asia of the future its widest boundaries yet. Said he: "We Japanese have a heaven-sent right to settle in some part of the United States climatically healthful and enjoyable...
...eight members, Major General Richard Curtis Moore and Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen* coordinate its work with projects of Army and Navy technicians. But the Committee is free to pluck suggestions from anywhere-from scientists, amateur tinkerers, soldiers in the ranks-and, if an idea looks good, instantly assign the best U.S. scientists to explore it. Unlike the Army and Navy specialists, who cannot stick their necks out, NDRC is willing, in the spirit of all academic and industrial science, to begin four experiments with cheerful confidence that three will be flops...
...chaplains got less attention from the Army than cooks. Few cantonments had chapels, and chaplains got neither religious equipment nor other assistance. Officers could assign the chaplains to all sorts of chores-tending the canteen, courts-martial, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director, checking up on mess purchases. Many colonels made virtual errand boys of their chaplains...
Because of the uncertain aspects of the situation, College authorities cannot definitely assign jobs, but the preliminary work must be finished by the end of the school year...