Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only two junior members of the English Faculty have been lost to the war, but two more are expected to leave next month. Instead of replacing them, the senior members are increasing their teaching and tutorial burdens. The department only dropped six undergraduates at midyears, but more will be going as a result of the latest draft. Graduate students are expected to be even more severely...
...everything went down. Encouraged by walloping good railroad income accounts, many speculators and investors switched from stocks to second-grade rail bonds, pushed prices near the 1939 highs. Junior liens of Baltimore & Ohio, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Missouri Pacific now sell at two to four times last year's low prices...
Record. In Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Junior Eugene J. Frechette Jr. breathed deeply for three minutes, took three breaths of oxygen, then sat purple-faced, breathless, like-to-bust, for 20 min., 5 sec. When he finally let go, he had broken the known world's record...
...Junior Miss. The lively antics of a Penrod in pigtails (TIME...
...came as quite a blow to many an Army officer, is the V-1 training program which permits qualified men to attend at least two years of college before they go into active service, with the added possibility of finishing college if they transfer to V-7 in their Junior year. The Navy is providing for an enlistment under V-1 of up to 80,000 men a year. From these, approximately 20,000 men will be transferred to aviation cadet flight training, V-5, and 15,000 to V-7. The other 45,000 who enlisted...