Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in Cambridge--its whereabouts a closely guarded secret--there is a Chinese Junk being built. Its builders, Peter Black '42 and David M. Ewing '42, plan to sail it down the Charles when it has been completed...
...north the Australian pursuit was relentless. R. A. F. bombers made junk of Italian trucks along the way, and Hurricanes mounting eight guns brushed the marching refugee troops with lead. The Italians hurried for Barce, where the northern railway spur from Bengasi ends, but before many troops could entrain and get away, the Australians were right on the Italian behind...
...staple diet of symphonic roast beef-the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, Wagner excerpts, Von Weber overtures-it is now broadening out, rather inquisitively poking its nose into a lot of stuff that for many years has lain around in cold storage. A good deal of this stuff is plain junk, and will go right back into cold storage where it came from. But there is bound to be some interesting and excellent music dug up, music appealing to the tastes of this generation, which may find a permanent place in the repertoire. The symphonic library, limited...
This week, as in 1917, high on Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies...
...with a brand-new bicycle, took the guests to see the apple of his eye, his pet project, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: three stories of fieldstone cottage, in whose 60-odd exhibition rooms and offices are being installed one of the greatest collections of memorabilia and historic junk ever gathered-a collection that ranges from a Russian Tsar's red-felt-lined droshky to Roosevelt's vast political and naval library, his hundreds of boxes of papers...