Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together with known trade-union leaders, were arrested. Investigation showed that the calling of the strike was opposed by Communist and union leaders, who were overruled by rank-&-file pressure. The strike was crushed, but South Africa's dry air last week still crackled with tension between 7,700,000 Negroes and 2,300,000 whites who rule them. The Government appointed another commission (all white) to study the problem...
...monsoon was coming and the jungle air was saturated with the all-pervading damp, and with a sense of disaster. On a winding, roller-coaster trail hurried a pitiful file of refugees, fleeing from destruction, despair and defeat. At the head of the line, setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute, trudged a slight, bespectacled old man wearing a World War I campaign hat. Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules...
Fifteen hundred men whom Dean Donald K. David characterized yesterday as "an extraordinary group representing a wide geographical range," are expected to file through the Business School registration mill starting today. The figure represents a 50 percent increase over summer enrollment, and it brings the proportion of veterans in the student body to slightly over nine...
...Werth was not permitted to file his story until Radio Moscow broadcast it. That put the -whole world press ahead of Werth's weekly paper (it has no connection with the daily London Times'), which had to wait five full days before printing his "scoop...
...relief from the critical housing shortage problem which has plagued University officials since the fall registration became evident yesterday in an announcement by the Freshman Housing office. The notice stated that in Stoughton and Hollis halls where "doubing up" caused the greatest hardship, the Yardlings would be allowed to file new room applications on the basis of two-to-a-room...