Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most military experts are beginning to feel that this attenuated naval force would be less than unfortunate. They point out that the Navy's light fundamentally centers around the question of who is going to fly out bombers from where. The Navy wants to stage them from carriers, and points to the wonderful mobility and endurance of its carrier task forces in the Pacific during the last war. The Air Force feels that this admitted flexibility of the task force is outweighed by the size limitations inherent in carrier planes, and the expense and vulnerability of the ships handling them...
Tacks & Taxes. How much longer such schools as Winchester could keep sailing, without at least changing their traditional tack, was the question. It costs ?276 a year for Britain's heavily taxed middle-and upper-class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
...referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...
...clarify my position on the question of communists on our college and school faculties? I cannot help feeling that the CRIMSON'S account of the Friday night Law School Forum misses my essential point...
...explosive question of religious persecution in the Soviet satellites is scheduled to come before the special political committee of the United Nations Assembly this week...