Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reliable betting establishment that will offer odds of five, two, and even that such will not be the case with your freshman adviser. In any event choose your courses with a certain amount of humility. You have a lot of time before you make up your final course list. Don't be dogmatic about the choices you listed today. Shop around. If you find something that you like better, you can change your course without charge before October...
...masthead with a heavy list to port...
Since the subject had come up, it seemed a good time to list a few of the "big, fat blimps of words" the News was really against: puff balls like "quadripartite," "unilateral" and "directive." "Why the boys can't just say 'four-party,' 'one-sided' and 'order' is beyond...
...great stabilizer of maritime employment. Before the unions began setting them up in the mid-'30s, hiring of seamen and longshoremen had been a racket; men were obliged to buy jobs and kick back part of their wages. As the unions ran them, jobs were filled from a list of union men registered at the halls. It was clearly discriminatory; non-union men could get jobs only when there were not enough union men to fill them. Thus the hiring hall became a stronghold of union security. But it brought a measure of peace to the nation...
Railroads. The Pennsylvania Railroad came up with a $216,700,000 improvement program, biggest in its 102-year history. On the Pennsy's shopping list are 192 new diesel engines and 395 new passenger coaches. Eventually all its through trains will have children's playrooms and movie theaters...