Word: disbanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of the problems was that perennial college bugaboo, the food situation. On display is a paper, dated 1778, which authorizes the Faculty to send a Sophomore to Connecticut on a flour buying expedition, lest the College disband for lack of victuals. Then there is a letter to the College Butler commanding him to cease selling fire water to students since the price had risen too high...
...them. It is: 1) unilateral; 2) inefficient; 3) perverted; 4) unpopular; 5) outmoded. "The Monroe Doctrine, with its imperialistic connotations, is loaded with the kind of explosive that endangers the Pan-American structure. . . . The moment Monroe's distorted shadow enters a Pan-American Conference, the Good Neighbors disband. The silence made around the Monroe Doctrine at the historical meeting at Rio [in January 1942] is more eloquent than any indictment ever uttered against...
Last week had been a time of peril, with moments such as that when the House of Representatives last year so knife-narrowly voted not to disband the drafted Army (203-202). The danger was not yet past. But the surpassing danger had been avoided-that the Congress would take action which would set group against group, labor against agriculture, Congress against President, in struggles bitter enough to disrupt the Republic...
Commissioned an Army captain, Bandleader Glenn Miller. His orchestra will disband...
...Unit will disband, and about half of the students will demonstrate various types of Naval Training, while the remainder will show the guests around. Demonstrations will include such thing as flag hosting, signaling and fleet tactics, semaphore signaling, loading and pointing the four inch gun, a lecture on mines, and rifle and pistol firing on the range in the basement...