Word: ironclads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
...major points in dispute, Van had produced a statesmanlike compromise. As the Administration had requested, Congress would be morally committed to continue ERP through June 1952. As Congress had insisted, the commitment would not be an ironclad guarantee. The initial sum for ERP would be cut from $6.8 billion to $5.3 billion, but the time to spend it would also be cut from 15 months to twelve. Thus the overall appropriation for ERP would be reduced, but not the monthly rate of spending. The 12-month limitation would also give the newly elected 1949 Congress an early chance to review...
Within Stillman Infirmary's ironclad confines, Miss Morency and Miss O'Donnell, now working off their two-year shift as night nurses, say they would just as soon change sheets by candlelight, since it gives them much time to get outdoors during the day. Many nurses do night duty while they are attending school during the days...
Forces of business, he claimed, hold practically all the press, radio, schools and other media of communication in an ironclad grip. Through these, business conducts its propaganda behind the front of the "little...
...Washington, it looked as if Europe had decided to go on U.S. relief forever. The State Department well knew that it would have a hard time getting even a $15 billion aid program through Congress -even with the most ironclad provisos that the money would be used for self-rehabilitation...