Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devoted to undergraduate instruction, and to some extent integrated with regular college programs, the Army Special- lzed Training Unit was instituted at the College in June, 1943. Intensive language courses, instruction in personnel psychology, and medical courses were offered to the selected trainees. By 1944 the ASTP program had been drastically cut and the majority of its members reassigned to the infantry...
Next fall, a Crimson Telephone Directory will be printed as usual. The board in 1936 claimed to be pioneers in this project, but research has revealed that phone numbers were run in the regular Crimson columns in the early 20's, including that of the Crime itself: Cambridge 2811 and 2812, changed under the dial system to the same numbers in the Kirkland exchange...
...Britain's railway carriages, once almost as hushed as an Anglican church, were becoming regular gabfest resorts. In an editorial advocating "silence" compartments, the Times chattered: "It is possible for six people to travel together . . . without any . . . shattering conversational interlude. But there is no certainty, and all meditation . . . may be destroyed by the chance presence of a single chatterer. Indeed a journey often affords shocking examples of the horrors of loquacity...
...Francisco had eight cases but no deaths. When smallpox was reported aboard a naval transport which arrived bearing 1,426 home-hungry sailors and marines, alarmed health officials flatly refused to let anyone come ashore until April 1. A regular old-fashioned smallpox scare quickly started, spread up & down the coast...
...ramrod-stiff soldier-Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee -it was a rank case of insubordination. Last week, to show the Rome Stars and Stripes who was boss, he up & fired its publications officer, 35-year-old Major Hal Kestler. No Army regular but a country editor who had worked up from buck private, Major Kestler had talked back when the General called for censorship on the paper's. "Mail Call" column. And he had put his foot right in it by going over Lee's head to protest to Washington...