Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terriers will assign their pitching duties to Dick Snow, the hurler who handed Northeastern its first defeat of the season this week. A left-hander, from Cloucester, Snow went in as a relie" pitcher in the first B.U. go against the Huskies and blanked them for four innings. He allowed only five hits in this week's nine innings...
...Washington, where State Department lawyers were scratching their heads, it was conceded that UNO offered plenty of legal problems-but constitutionality was not one of them. The Government planned, by treaty, simply to "assign" the world capital area to UNO-without ceding the territory or relinquishing sovereignty over it. UNO could buy up the property directly from its owners (as the State Department wistfully hoped it would), or ask the Government to seize it by right of eminent domain...
First, there was hardly a business building in Manila that wasn't a wreck. The best the Army could assign us was a three-story warehouse whose roof had been burned away and whose floors had been gutted. (It took two months and some wonderful help from the Army to get a roof that would at least keep the rain off the presses...
...ships after the war. The Harvard group thought that the U.S. should keep and operate 9,185,000 gross tons. A little more than half of the tonnage they allotted to domestic business (coastwise tankers, etc.); a little less than half (4,135,000 gross tons) they would assign to carrying the nation's foreign trade...
Some of the 1,200 German scientists volunteered to go to the U.S. and Britain to continue their research. The Allies are discussing plans to assign many to work on new weapons against Japan...