Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the Year of the Rat-and the year of the Communists. In the Chinese calendar, the old year stood for misfortune and deceit. A few surreptitious firecrackers, still forbidden under martial law, last week heralded the New Year of the Ox, which signified hard work and persistence. In present-day China, inevitably, it also signified sorrow and loss...
...alleviate the present crowding in most of the United States' large cities and to make urban re-development possible, Perkins strongly urged a shift of population away from cities and to new smaller communities which should be built in outlying areas...
...explained that he was continuing the medical examination to clear up several loose ends, but other than that he would make no definite statement. At present, most widely felt medical opinion is that some form of elusive accidental poisoning was responsible...
When Andy Lockett and Bill Lawrence go down the runway in the pole vault, they will have to hoist themselves higher than Pete Harwood, among other people. Harwood, at present a student at the Business School, won the IC4A pole vault championship in 1946 with a 13 foot, 10 inch jump...
...Register staff plans to begin work on the Freshman Red Book as soon as present volumes have been distributed...