Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administrator Paul Porter said that he was preparing a big cut in his staff of 35,000, and that the whole decontrol program had been moved up two months, to Nov. 1. After the first of the year, price lids would remain on autos, building materials, refrigerators, furniture, sugar, basic clothing items, farm machinery and rents...
...thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...
Three years later Mount St. Benedict admitted him, gave him basic training and two years of philosophy, sent him on to the Benedictine College of Theology at Belgium's University of Louvain. Ordained a priest in 1935, Father Matthews took extension courses from University Correspondence College, Cambridge, came to the U.S. and Fordham on a scholarship...
...disappeared down the maw of preinduction acceleration. A twelve-week summer term became an established institution, and, later, for the great majority of students then in the services, a system of war service credits was instituted. Credit towards one's degree was offered for such diverse subjects as basic training, meteorology, and Japanese...
...Brunswick isn't yet filled with its quota of 115 couples. Sixty suites have been occupied, according to a strict priority system set up by the Straus Hall housing office, which has as its basic rule: first come, first served. Many of the hotel's "Charter members," who came in during the last week of September, had been on the housing waiting list since January. At the present time, students are being accepted who registered within the last 90 days; and, at the rate of two or three newcomers each day, the hotel is quickly filling...