Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NROTC certificate uses one page of small type to relist those organizations originally designated by the Attorney General in the fall of 1947 as totalitarian, fascist, communist, advocating denial of constitutional rights, or seeking to alter the form of government by unconstitutional means. The facing page asks the individual to certify, among other things, whether he has been associated with these organizations...
...reported to Congress that only a fraction of the 205,000 DP's provided for could be processed in the appointed time. For instance, the law specifies that 30 per cent of the immigrants must be agricultural workers, and that 40 per cent must come from the three small Baltic countries. Further, only people who arrived in DP camps during certain periods of time can be admitted, which conveniently cuts down the number eligible in certain ethnic and religious groups...
...noon Nehru and his sister will come to Cambridge for a small private lunchoon with President and Mrs. Conant in the President's house...
...from the sulky and physically push the moose until it was once again aimed in the correct direction and high speed travel could proceed. The coming of winter matorially affected neither the animal's speed nor his inability to turn corners, and in the chillier seasons it hauled a small sled instead of a sulky...
...mayor, being both a wise and thrifty person, set about selling his trained moose. After considerable dealings with various prospective purchasers, he sold the animal to a small travelling circus where, it is reported, it was used to run sprint trials (on a straight course) against another member of the circus case, a large trained ostrich. It is further reported that the moose could beat the ostrich nine times...