Word: losee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue its critics, the draft has caused the college man to lose all sense of public duty, the Defense Department is losing a great reservoir of brains because it has too few places to put them, and the undergraduate who does not plan to go to graduate school or become a father becomes, to all intents and purposes, a draft dodger. In the face of an increase in manpower due to population growth, the Defense Department is deferring large groups of men for poor reasons and offering a militarily unrealistic six-month program in the bargain...
...Astrue will have used up all his leave. When M.C. Wendell asks him what British adventurer explored the waters around Jamestown in 1608 and afterward the waters around New England, what will he say? Will he say John Smith and stay on the show? Or will he say Raleigh, lose his championship to one Dave Fries, and go back to duty with a check for $143,600 in his pocket? Tune in to NBC, Friday, March 20, 12 noon E.S.T...
There seems to be little justification, at least at present, for instituting a standardized menu. Master Bullitt has rightly pointed out that the manager of an individual kitchen would lose his initiative in menu planning and experimentation. More important, the small, indendendent kitchens provide a testing ground for new recipes, dishes, or combinations...
...have been quickly beaten down. Undaunted by this. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson last week took up the attack again. He told Congress that something has to be done to tighten up on the depletion allowance; the loopholes in the law are so many that the Treasury stands to lose hundreds of millions in revenue each year...
...carried to ridiculous extremes, with claims being allowed for structural steel, ceramics, pig aluminum, etc. The allowance on two tons of iron ore is $2.40, said Treasury, but would jump to $44.25 if computed on the value of steel bolts made from the ore. The Treasury already stands to lose $297 million in claims for rebates now being asked for in court, could lose as much as $600 million annually if the new interpretation for mining is stretched across the board...