Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...players, Beauty and Ugly, sit facing in the same direction, using a board 17 by 11 inches. While Beauty attempts to fabricate an aesthetically satisfying design, Ugly endeavors to thwart his enemy by placing his quota of pieces in awkward spots, and to destroy Beauty's harmony...
Although the verdict of the main attraction was never in doubt after Bud Higginbottom's first goal at 0:45 of the first period, the varsity managed to commit its usual quota of lapses at the points and in front of the goal. Against teams of Brown's calibre the Crimson can get away with handing out breaks--most of the time...
...relaxation of the Cold War in Europe can the German question be solved. To achieve any realistic result, therefore, the United States must work toward a disengagement gradual enough so that each side can take the immediate steps without feeling its security endangered. Limiting arms in Germany, setting a quota on ground forces and a prohibition on missile bases would prove fruitful as a first step in decreasing tension...
...blue eyes (Category 16-A), Bronson failed to meet SR (Stat Reg) 299-Q mean distribution. The instructor in Government 101 (Political Theory of the Beat Generation, TT (S), 9 a.m.) will not accept Bronson as a student because too many Democrats have applied, upsetting the PB (Partisan Balance) quota. So it will go. Bronson will be rejected by every instructor, from Professor Gravel in Geography 173 (Geography of the Beat Generation) to Dr. Wang in Chinese Studies 10 (Asia and the Beat Generation...
...operated is that it is inequitable. Of the nation's 2,200,000 physically fit men in the 18½-to-26-year-old bracket, only 120,000 get grabbed by the draft each year. Thousands of others volunteer, but the fact is that in the skimpy-quota peacetime era it requires little imagination to think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years...