Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around in new Buicks and Studebakers. Moreover, President Syngman Rhee, anxious for international prestige, has splendiferous plans for an international airline, an ocean-going merchant marine, and several luxury hotels. In a nation which pays its ministers $170 a month and where the average suit costs $125, corruption may siphon off some of the aid funds...
Radcliffe's Bertram Hall was flooded yesterday as a foot of water from this week's snowfall seeped into the basement. Workmen were forced to drain the water through a hold chopped in the basement floor, and hoses were used to siphon the water on to the Quad...
...column to go to press, he has recited the polished sentences into a Dictaphone, and soon they will be teletyped into the offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann...
...highway planners, the Delaware Memorial Bridge stood for something more exciting than statistics: it is one more completed, solid link in a plan to unsnarl the major postwar highway problems of the northeastern U.S. By November, if all goes well, the new $250 million New Jersey Turnpike will siphon the outpouring of trucks and cars from New York, run them across the Jersey meadows and farmlands at 60 to 70 m.p.h., and spill them out on the new Delaware bridge in half the time of today's routes. From there, in mid 1952, southbound motorists should be able...
...next year with a "pilot operation" of 10,000 boys, it could not do much more even if it showed it wanted to. The hard military fact is that there is simply not enough manpower to maintain a standing army of 3,500,000 and at the same time siphon off the best crop of recruits-the 18-year-olds-into U.M.T. Each year 800,000 draftees, their 24 months of service ended, will be released from the Army. Unless Congress raises the draft age or increases the draftee's length of service, replacements must come from the million...