Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points...
Whatever the label, Congress was faced with a hard choice. Few Congressmen relish the responsibility of leaving any stone unturned in the quest for U.S. security. Yet there are a few dissenters even in the high command of the Army, Air Forces and Navy (e.g., Admiral Nimitz) who question the effectiveness of a year's peacetime training, however arduous...
...wonder insecticide" that had millions of dollars worth of free advertising, is a very good insecticide. But it will not do everything. In too small quantities, it will not do anything. To eager manufacturers of bug sprays with "flagrant" claims, the Department of Agriculture has said sternly: label your products properly and give accurate directions. To the bug-plagued public, the department has offered some advice...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in C Minor (Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Hephzibah Menuhin, piano; Victor, 8 sides). The first 5,000 of these albums were erroneously labeled Sonata No. 2; red-faced Victor is now trying to correct its wrong red labels. Under either label it is the Seventh, and an agile brother & sister act. Performance: excellent...
...other. As political adviser to MacArthur. Washington named plump, 48-year-old George Atcheson Jr., career diplomat and counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking during much of the war. Able, experienced in Far Eastern affairs, Atcheson was a flexible man who could not be branded with any political label...