Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns out to be a dream, and everything must be threshed out again from the beginning...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that within the next three years, nine new weather stations for long-range forecasting will be built above the Arctic Circle. Canadians will be in charge of operating them, but the U.S. will pay an unspecified portion of the initial cost (an estimated $150,000 per station) and maintenance. At first the U.S. will also provide most of the trained personnel. Though Howe did not say so, Canadians guessed that this was the first action to implement the new U.S.-Canada defense agreement (TIME...
...haleyon days of the 1930s, when the Bureau was first conceived, tutoring schools of the square served some 60 percent of the student body, enabling many of their clients to graduate after having attended only a small fraction of their classes and having completed only a rigidly digested portion of their work...
...Chamizal. Mexico also hoped to discuss an old Rio Grande boundary question. El Chamizal (see map) lies within the city limits of El Paso-some 83 blocks, worth about $3,000,000. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator awarded Mexico, which already held a portion of the north bank, a chunk of the disputed area. The U.S. turned down his verdict and stood on the boundary of the river's present banks...
During the business portion of the meeting, special elections were held to fill vacant committee chairmanships and the post of Treasurer. Veterans affairs will be under the direction of Irving Dysart 2L, and membership recruiting, Charles Conkin '48. Lawrence Jaffa 2G will be responsible for maintenance of the treasury. Dick Rives '45 Occ reported for the Student Council that the chapter was invited to send a 20-man team to Europe this summer for rehabilitation work...