Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California, the tax students were high-school teachers. The California scheme: the teachers will teach the new subject to their regular high-school students, who will then go home and be father's little helpers. In Detroit, tax officials estimated that the hole-in-the-wall advisers, with their eyes open or shut, got the right answers about 10% of the time. In Portland, Ore., ambulances responded twice to calls from collectors' offices. A woman confronted with her final figure was "in a state of collapse"; a strong man who had spied his had fainted. And Oregon...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cruised around Britain in high gear last week, visiting camps, inspecting troops, giving forthright pep talks and conferring with field officers who will lead the invasion forces. Monty traveled, as he does everything, with dash and authority. He had a special train, his regular staff, a picked detail of twenty ATS (British WACs) who served as cooks and orderlies...
...reserve vessels were taken on chiefly as an eye-and-ear auxiliary for regular Coast Guard ships. Only lightly armed, they sometimes went against orders and engaged in singlehanded scuffles with the enemy, emerging more sorry than successful. They proved worthier for port security, training, rescue missions in offshore disasters...
...first time, a Negro newsman was admitted last week to the President's regular press conference, granted credentials. He was light-skinned Harry McAlpin of the Atlanta Daily World (circ. 23,000) and the Negro Newspaper Publishers' Association. Previously, President Roosevelt had received 13 Negro newspaper publishers, heard their plea for an end to "second-class citizenship" and their 21-point statement of war and postwar aspirations...
Last week basketball standings for the current round robin league were promised for this issue, but nothing official can be announced because of the omission of regular reports to the athletic officer. The games are being played, half the teams are winning, but the latter evidently don't want to publicize that fact...