Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting and production still has many rough corners, but then, it is the summer theatre. Running the gauntlet with Miss Chase is John Ireland in his first big part this year, playing the role of the publisher; Louise Valery, as always, is the other woman in the triangle; takes the part of the politician...
...received its big manila envelopes then, and 489 men signed their names on the required lines before running the greatly reduced gauntlet of solicitors, having only the publications representatives to deal with...
...book by Sergeants Harry Brown and Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...
...Army physical at the central Chicago recruiting station consists of running an endless gauntlet of corrugated wooden booths, each dedicated to one specific branch of medical science. The psychiatrist, I remember, came somewhere between venereal diseases and athlete's feet...
...found for statement, widespread feeling was rampant at the Network that the newly founded station was responsible for the unfortunate silence. In the belief that the suspicions of his staff would seen be proved true Robert S. Kieve '43, president of the Network, last night cast down the gauntlet to the usurpers of Harvard radio peace. "We are now making plans to wipe WLP completely off the face of the dial," he thundered...