Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 150 privately-owned stands fell open to use by all registered cabs following a 7 to 9 City Council vote that Harvard Square Police termed "an unquestionable break for the veterans who own their own cabs...
...Work. The quick-witted labor lawyer from Vera Cruz thrives on such fare. Mornings he works at the palace. Not till 3 does he break off for lunch. Afterwards he works, with sleeves rolled up and collar open, in the law-book-lined office of his Chapultepec-home. Sometimes the biggest issues get settled there...
Last month, Reynolds decided to break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...
...problem seems inevitably headed for a maze of blind alleys. Great Britain proposed this committee-constituting sessions so that the UN regular assembly in September might receive its own report on Palestine, emphasizing, no doubt, the difficulties facing the mandatory power to date. And in a desperate play to break the issue wide open, Arab League delegates will insist that today's meeting immediately cut short British control and declare Palestine independent. But this is only one of several obscuring political issues; the UN's true task is to find quick relief for more than 100,000 Jewish DPs still...
...Alumni Committee to decide upon a Student Activities Center as Harvard's war memorial, College opinion must first find authentic crystal-clear expression. This week's Student Council survey of organizational rank-and-file is a step in the right direction: it presents an opportunity for the groups to break through a special apathy of their own and speak out. Not only have they been slow in response to date; over half have in addition not responded whatsoever to the Council's invitation for cooperative action...