Word: interpretive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second order has not been difficult for the board to interpret. Entitled Operations Bulletin 51, it grants postponement of physical or induction to veterans who prior to February 24, 1948 entered upon active duty, and who after that date were honorably discharged upon the completion of two or more years service. Heretofore, such veterans were considered eligible draft material...
Look Out. "Now," said Fulbright, "I would interpret that as a warning to him that 'you had better look out. It looks to us at least as if your flanks are exposed.' Is that a correct interpretation...
...first question went to the heart of the Christian doctrine of the natural sinfulness of man-though Rector Ribble phrased it in casual, man-in-the-street language. Doing their best to interpret the theological issue in the poll's terms, 245 parishioners declared that people "by nature" are "good" or "more apt to be good than bad"; only 21 could bring themselves to say that people are by nature "bad." But 272 were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted...
...already shipped $10 million worth of ammunition to Formosa. After the 116-man mission which left last week has reported on Chiang's needs in equipment and the U.S. starts shipping it, the mission will be built up to about 600 men. But just in case anyone might interpret this as a sign that the Administration had really been shaken into doing something, Secretary of State Dean Acheson hastily discouraged the notion. The aid program had been conceived before the MacArthur dismissal, he pointed out carefully, and he insisted that the program meant no change in the U.S. policy...
...small retailer, I have been spending most of my time for the past three weeks trying to interpret the price control regulaions and make out the necessary charts, that, in addition to all the other bureaucratic atrocities I have to contend with- such as federal and state income tax, withholding tax, social security, unemployment insurance, workmen's disability insurance, excise taxes...