Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greater part of American youth have no jobs. America is run by economic royalists and military brass hats. The average American family needs $78 per week to survive it receives...
...Army brass was in contact with the ticket office all day yesterday seeeking additional allocations on the Harvard side of the field. There seems little likelihood that any Army ducats in the original block of six sections will be returned unused. These seats, coupled with those of season ticket holders, assure a full house on the visitors' side...
...pillared hall, 636 delegates of the "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" cheered deliriously. A 49-piece brass band blared Red songs...
...this prodigious speed gives little idea of the machine's talents. Its strong point is its "inner memory." This "memory" consists of nine big aluminum cylinders revolving up to 7,200 r.p.m. Their surfaces are coated with black magnetic material. Huddled around them are staggered rows of little brass blocks enclosing electromagnets. When a brief electric impulse flashes through an electromagnet, it prints a dot of magnetism on the spinning cylinder's surface. The dot stands for part of a coded number for the machine to store in its memory...
...powers given this executive committee, most students feel that it is a do-nothing organization. A move to put some 'new life" into the ASSU was started in one election when a non-fraternity man, who had never held an office before, entered the ASSU presidential campaign with a brass band and guitar playing campaign. Under a preferential balloting system, he had a large majority on the first count, but lost in the end by three votes...