Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many of these will never be called if present deferment policies are continued; they are to all intents and purposes exempt. As a consequence, if a global war should engulf us, we would have to fight the war with the veterans of World War II or those who have served since Korea; we have no trained reserves other than veterans...
...Guatemala's influential Communists, the bill is designed to double the number of small landholders by expropriating larger landholders' untilled fields. Owners of such idle lands-possibly one-third of the country's arable acreage-will be paid off with 25-year government bonds. The bill exempts all farms of 225 acres or less and farms of less than 675 acres on which at least two-thirds of the acreage is cultivated. Also exempt, because they are cultivated: the vast banana plantations of the U.S.-owned United Fruit...
...handing down his decrees. Judge Gadsby said "Draft exempt Harvard University students should be disillusioned and made to realize that they are permitted to go to college to study...
...team boasts three other lettermen, Dusty Burke, Bill Timpson, and Mitch Rosenholtz, who will not make the trip. Along with Weissman and Herberg, they are exempt from the varsity's qualifying round, which will take place at the Dedham Country Club after the vacation...
...Figures. Last week Lawsonomy-Founder Lawson was called out of seclusion and summoned to Washington to appear before the Senate Small Business Committee. The Senators wanted to know why his university, claiming to be a tax-exempt institution, had paid $4,480 for 62 war-surplus machine tools "for educational purposes" in 1947, and resold 45 of them for $120,000. The committee also wanted to know if the University of Lawsonomy is a bona fide college. If not, it had no legal right to the machines...