Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the speeding up of the college program all along the line, there is a genuine need to overhaul the election schedules for the Student Council. Since men are going through college in about half or two-thirds of the usual time, the Council should have more frequent elections and should have them earlier in the college program...
...shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...case, said Chairman George, the U.S. tax structure is due for a complete overhaul...
...appallingly weak to start with: at the war's start it could muster only 124 first-line squadrons (about 1,500 planes). It was now almost three times as strong (about 4,200 first-line planes), but had a very long way to go in order definitely to overhaul the Luftwaffe (six air fleets of 1,700 operative planes each, before the Russian...
...which the U.S. is giving Britain was until last week practically a secret from the American people. Waterfront strollers (and every Axis consul who is on the job) have seen British warships putting into East Coast ports where there are U.S. Navy yards-putting in for supplies, overhaul, repairs of battle and storm damage. But only over the bellowing body of Secretary of the Navy Knox (see p. 41) could any paper mention any of them. So it remained for a higher authority to give the public an idea of how much was going...