Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chappie Arnold, a perennial standby of university house affairs, will provide the music, and a Yuletide motif has been announced by the decorations department. An anonymous motion to give one of the proctors a pillow and a Santa Claus outfit, however, was unanimously voted down...
...thing they tell us repeatedly is that they might not have thought of working for TIME before the war, but now they want a job which will make some contribution to the kind of world they fought for. They say that TIME is the kind of outfit they would like to work for, that they like TIME'S product and its viewpoint - a comment which must have come largely from reading TIME'S domestic and overseas wartime editions...
Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrück prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan - if their warmth proved therapeutic - was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units...
...Jayvee eleven, after blasting out an early lead over the Massachusetts Maritime Academy here Saturday, finally succumbed on the short end of a 13 to 9 count. Freshman E. N. Foynes scored the only Crimson touchdown on an end run in the first period, but Coach Al Kevorkian's outfit was unable to hold the mariners. After a sailor score in the second quarter, the home team struck back with a safety early in the second half, but a last-period tally sewed up the contest for the visitors...
Older professionals, getting near retirement, heard what he had to say with approval. As it had from the day it was founded (Nov. 10, 1775), the Corps would need noncoms like Smith to keep the outfit going. Smith was 16 when he shipped in the Marine Corps. He was a husky, competent corporal of 22 when he heard his first shot fired in anger. That was at Pearl Harbor. Charles Henry Smith was in the color guard aboard the battleship Maryland when the enemy struck. On the double at the proper command, he manned his antiaircraft...