Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate effect of sending service men to college for two, three, or four years, however, will be to deprive the nation of an important part of its effective fighting strength. The services have been given a free hand in establishing whatever college training they prefer, but one service cannot alone decide whether these men will best serve their country by entering the firing-line now or later. Conscious of its own needs and ignorant of the manpower situation as a national problem, neither the Navy nor any other branch can be allowed to draw off into cold storage vital...
with at least a year's weekly experience on news and ads needed badly to assist publisher of good weekly. Prefer gal who is a perfect 36, beautiful, smart, willing to work for $5 a week, interested in weekly papers. Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, white or colored. Because of the war we might waive some or all preferences. Office is cold in winter, hot as hell in summer, the toughest weekly joint in the state to work in because we're ornery. We also expect perfection in other folks. We serve beer when the 40-year...
Harvardmen Prefer Femmes...
Died. Edna Hibbard, 47, stage comedienne; in Manhattan. She made her biggest hit as Dorothy, the mercenary brunette companion of the mercenary blonde Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...