Word: sp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Out the A.S.P.D.! The Military District of Washington announced a daring experiment in unification: it was getting ready to put the Army's MPs and the Navy's Shore Patrol out of business. Some time around the first of the year, the MPs and SP would be merged (with the Air Force's patrolmen) into a new and common enemy: the Armed Services Police Department...
...conference is under the auspices of the Graduate Student's Committee for World Peace, whose temporary chairman is Eugene Sparrow 2Dv. The Committee was established at the bull session, and has been recognized by Dean Wild's office, publicity director Max Blue-stone Sp explained last night...
...beta, and kappa are the initials of a three world Grecian motto that means, "Love of wisdom the Holmsman of Life." On the reverse side of the key the name and college of the member is engraved above the letters SP which stand for Societies Philosophiae...
Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...
...stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialité. The management obligingly posted a timetable over the bar in the lobby; habitués would drink till the big moment, dash in for it, and then depart...