Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks starting Monday, Freshman will take "Step and Posture Tests." Appointment slips for these examinations are included in registration envelopes of all incoming students. Before he may elect his physical activity, each Freshman must satisfy the minimum requirements of these tests...
...down the hemisphere last week, Presidents, ex-Presidents and Presidents-elect were on the move...
CUBA'S PERIPATETIC PRESIDENT-ELECT Carlos Prío Socarrás, who had already received the full treatment in Mexico (TIME, Aug. 9) and who plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio
Only a few days before, President-elect Gonzalez had suavely assured newsmen that not more than a few political prisoners were still behind bars. Lola showed me documents proving that more than 1,200 still rot in the filth of Paraguay's jails. If I wanted to see for myself, Lola said, she could arrange to slip me into the Asuncion jail as a visitor...
...close-to-the-vest fight for control of New England's biggest railroad, Boston's shrewd, old (82) Frederic C. Dumaine held an impressive hand. Dumaine interests had claimed that they had picked up enough New York, New Haven & Hartford stock to elect eleven of the 16 directors (TIME, May 17). Last week, with a stockholders' showdown meeting still a month off, the opposition folded up. Howard S. Palmer, who, Boston charged, was too close to New York interests, resigned after 14 years as New Haven's president. To make New England's victory over...