Word: defer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorandum, according to defense secretary aides orders local boards to defer up to 129,500 men in R.O.T.C. units...
...Council and House Committee's plan for extending room permissions to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays at this afternoon's Faculty meeting. "I would be very surprised," Sandler said, "if the faculty considered this for more than a minute and overruled the Administrative Board." The Council decided to defer further discussion until after the meeting...
Jordan once again stressed the fact that, while Lowenstein's ailments could justifiably defer him, the strength of public opinion alone could force the drafting of the Harvard captain
Injury Won't Defer...
Brigadier General Louis H. Renfrow, acting director of Selective Service, replied that "the authority of the local board to defer or not to defer must be preserved...But the recent tests and the reports on class standing were designed to be used by local boards as guides...