Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acquire that increment of manpower, Secretary Forrestal would clamp selective service on the 3,600,000 young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
...Forrestal program also included universal military training, which would supply a constant pool of 850,000 men at least partially trained. Forrestal did not explain how U.M.T. would be separated from selective service. Presumably U.M.T. would catch the 18-year-olds...
Irritated by the constant disappearance of notices all year, one HLU member persuaded two friends to peer through a mail-slot on the ground floor of B entry, Winthrop House. Within 45 minutes, they observed Newcomb remove a "Kill UMT Rally" poster from the board...
...tour, he's not too happy about it, either. The team has been handicapped by a late start in out-of-door practices, and is not as well oriented as some of its opponents. And if lack of practice is not too big a handicap, a week of constant travel, most of it by bus, will not be much of an aid to smooth ball-playing either...
Brailling Along. Riddled by Mrs. Riddle's constant instructions, the first three provosts (a Riddleism for headmaster) had a tough time. She had found one of them simply by consulting a classified telephone directory, looking for likely sounding names among the clergy. When Brooks Brothers was unable to supply grey flannels because of wartime shortages, the clergyman-provost told the boys to wear what they pleased. Mrs. Riddle was outraged, and the provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army...