Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drafting of women into the armed forces will take them out of their important roles as workers and as mothers on the home front. But we advocate no universal conscription of women, only enough to fill a reasonable proportion of appropriate service jobs, so that there should be no dearth of secretaries, waitresses, maids, or the like. And military service should have no adverse effects on women's preparation for motherhood...
...dearth of representation from the Eastern prep school set would probably make it easy for students from that segment of the College to get into Dunster...
...have been much amused by the continued furor caused by this newspaper in regard to the dearth of social, bisexual entertainment facilities available to the Harvard undergraduate. Much energy, crimition, and literary license has been indulged in to describe the lush grass somewhere and to compare it to the pallid green homeland of the Cantabridgian...
When the Korean War broke out, the last thing the U.S. public worried about was a dearth of merchant ships. After all, the U.S. had a mothball fleet of 2,154 World War II cargo vessels ready for action on a few weeks' notice. But last week it looked as if the time had come to start worrying about cargo ships too. Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane (Ret.), Federal Maritime Administrator, warned that the U.S. did not have enough fast cargo ships. Of the mothball fleet, 1,528 were lumbering 10-knot Liberties. Only 205 were 15-knot Victory...
...theatrical future is a promising mixture of comedies and serious plays. The only complaint right now is the dearth of musical comedies, but we may see a larger proportion of them after December...