Word: entailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hours of your time next Monday night will perform an invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...
...only will his teaching entail an easing of his retirement but will necessitate his breaking a long-standing personal tradition by addressing an audience of women for the first time. He has not promised to curb his vehement chastising of hat-wearing or newspaper-reading during his lectures, and it is presumed that his classes will be as colorful as they are traditionally painted...
Army is about to replace rubber treads on its tanks with steel-though the changeover would entail a 10% loss in tank speed. Chief reasons for the Army's new spirit of self-denial...
...Allies could act with Russia to put a counter-pincer on the German pincer in Europe. This would entail an assault in force on Europe timed to coincide with a major Russian drive. It would depend on the British. Apparently the Germans fear such a move. There have been rumors that Hitler would invade Sweden soon-as a counter-counter pincer on the expected counter-pincer on his pincer. Last week, with no ostensible reason for doing so, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times went out of his way to suggest the possibility by denying it: "Swedish...
...appeal for cooperation is being used rather than the force implicit in a rationing system. "Rationing would be difficult to enforce and it might entail considerable hardship for indiduals," said Lyon Southworth, assistant director of the Laboratories...