Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of these complicated arrangements Snedaker received an unexpected setback: the Egyptian government confiscated the residue of TIME'S Oct. 27 issue because the cover story on India had carried a picture of Mohamed. Repercussions had extended throughout the Moslem world, one of whose basic tenets is that no likeness of the Prophet may be reproduced, and protests had been made to the Egyptian government because the likeness had been permitted to appear in a magazine printed in Egypt. Snedaker explained that TIME'S editors had meant no offense to Islam...
Hopes for an overnight parking lot on Soldiers Field at a mere 12-cents-a-month fee were dashed yesterday by the Boston Board of Street Commissioners. But despite this setback, the Student Council is going ahead with its plans, and in a poll this, week is offering student car-owners a choice of either a fully protected lot for five dollars or the nebulous possibility of one unguarded and free...
...long while. R. H. Macy's President Jack Straus called on all businessmen to "fight for a lower level of prices." Murray Shields, vice president of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., declared that "recent developments have increased the risk that we shall experience an economic setback." Said the Federal Reserve Board's Menc S. Szymczak: the U.S. is now facing "the cataclysmic consequences of runaway inflation...
With nine lettermen from last year's team that handed the Crimson a 5 to 3 setback, the men from Amherst rate as one of the better teams the Varsity will face this year. Last week they beat McGill College in a close 2 to 1 decision but the Montrealers are probably the best college team in Quebec...
...Break But from then on, Bob Taft found that he had to stage a full-scale western campaign with all the trappings, whether he liked it or not. Once he got used to the idea, he seemed to like it. His bobble on food prices was a setback, but it had happened early-he had more than a dozen appearances ahead...