Word: defer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical School has not had to bother about questionnaires or deferment letters. All that is necessary to defer a medical student is a form letter saying that he is actively enrolled in Medical School. The draft has had an effect on applications, however, for according to one official, many more college juniors are now applying to Medical School than ever before...
...schools, like Stanford, may take is a greater number of women. North-western University, in Chicago, asked the government directly to defer 1100 draftable non-veterans. President George F. Senberger said they had received no reply...
About 200 second year men--most of them veterans--are in the reserves, and an equal number are veterans but not in the reserves. Policy has been to defer reservists, when they are called, to the end of the academic term. Veterans are generally exempted under federal...
Judge Leibowitz, already determined to defer Scarpati's sentence for further study, slowly turned to the jury. "There you have it, gentlemen-unrehearsed, unexpected, but with a thousandfold greater force than if you had read it in some professor's book . . ." He looked down at Joe Senatore. "I agree with you one hundred percent. But what do you think the court should do in this case...
Teele stated that the University will defer retirements of employees who wish to continue working in order to become eligible under the Act. Retired employees benefitting from Social Security will receive reduced contributions from the University's Retirement Plan, but the new benefits would favorably offset such reductions...