Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army reserves and the navy reserves are organized on the same theory, that of providing a trained civil populace to form around the regular army in a time of what both the War Department and the Department of the Navy refer to euphemistically as "national emergency...
...undergraduate group should recommend adoption of the new system of awarding letters, the next step would be to refer the matter to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
...would like to draw your attention to the fact that from memoirs of Count Kokovtzev and Count Witte, both liberal Prime Ministers of the Russian Empire during those years, it appears that the "massacre" to which you refer, amounted to eighty-nine people killed and wounded before the Winter Palace on Jan. 9, 1905.* No one, least of all myself, excuses this action, but I think that in your plan you could have made another notation, that near the Prisons of Kristi, in December 1917, by order of the Soviet Government, 2,760 people were executed in two days...
...tell the pedestrian a) that you are a sanitation man and not a traffic cop, b) not to interfere with a city employee in the performance of his duties, c) to ask another man in the crew because you are busy, d) that you do not know and refer him to a nearby traffic officer, e) to look it up in the telephone book...
...statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin D., or as that Roosevelt; Swedes either speak of good Per Albin or use certain short Nordic adjectives...