Word: defer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman who, by virtue of previous military training or service, is entitled to credit for the first year, Basic Courses, but who, in the normal course of events, will complete the four years undergraduate study and graduate prior to reaching his 20th birthday, may be required to defer his enrollment in the second year, Basic Course, until the commencement of his sophomore year...
From Washington last week, Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey sent a memo about college students to U.S. local draft boards. The policy of Selective Service, until further notice: to defer drafting students who 1) have had at least a year of college, 2) stood in the upper half of their class last year, and 3) signed up for more college before...
...realize himself, and they can ruin him if he's pliable . . ." Perkins thought of himself as a literary midwife who helped a writer through the painful labor of creation (mainly by holding his hand), but never tried to shape the nature of his offspring. "Don't ever defer to my judgment," he wrote to Scott Fitzgerald in one of the letters collected in this book...