Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army was still not sure how many men it wanted in the regular ground forces, but it was thinking in terms of 500,000. The Air Forces knew they wanted 419,000. Guardsmen aside, this would make a total of about 1,500,000 regulars in the three services, and an annual cost of perhaps $10 billion-as much as the entire federal budget in the New Deal's most spendthrift days. (The Navy alone wanted -"to spend as much as an average Coolidge or Hoover budget...
...their first regular meet of the season, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's cindermen crushed Exeter by a score of 59 to 22 on the loser's field Saturday. At the same time, the squash team lost to Dartmouth, and the J.V. matmen contested Andover unsuccessfully at Harvard...
Roly-poly (219 Ibs.) George Allen is a regular card. One of his favorite stories is about the time he was captain of a Cumberland University football team, beaten 222-to-0 by Georgia Tech. George likes to say that he made Cumberland's best run -"I only got thrown for a five-yard loss...
Kilian indignantly denied knowledge of any beatings (except one) in the Lichfield stockade-where other witnesses had testified that the beatings were a regular, daily occurrence, carried out on Kilian's own orders. Once he flatly refused to answer a direct question, and the court cited him for contempt...
...matter of fact," she wrote, "we were never close to the White House. We were invited only to the regular large receptions, as we had been since President Harding's time, and to a couple of dinners when Ray was president of the Gridiron Club. . . . Other newspapermen-even Westbrook Pegler-were invited for a weekend to Hyde Park, but never the Clappers...