Word: taping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attract the independents with a "liberal" proposal, the Republicans have seemingly embraced the Townsend Plan. Actually, they favor only a hearing in Congress, believing that the President will in the end blackball it. For labor's sake Mr. Saltonstall desires to eliminate the red tape in the employees' compensation law and to clean up the fly-by-night employment agencies. In addition, he hopes to remove the bad spots from the civil service and to provide reasonable old-age compensation. These intentions do not paint an administrator vibrant with reform zeal, but they do show one who will refrain from...
...Eliot barely edged out AI Blanchard of Winthrop and Dick Mudge of Kirkland, who tied for second; Dana's time was 10:6. It was another Elephant who provided the thrill in the mile, when Dinwiddle Smith forged in front coming down the home stretch to breast the tape in 5,25.4. Deacons Alan Manning and Hardy Phippen took second and third...
Closest finish of the meet was in the final 80 yard dash, in which Yardlings Clark and Whitney pushed Stout to the tape. Clark also took a second in the low hurdles...
...courses might remedy this condition in part. One of the more obvious would be to waive course prerequisites in cases where Freshmen had received advanced work in school, for it cannot be denied that much time is wasted in elementary courses for the sake of complying with the red tape of University Hall. Another solution might be to introduce the type of course so popular in some other colleges, which would go under the name of Civilization 1 and rain culture on the just and the unjust...
...matched, however, when the British Army said a far more significant farewell. Like the horses of the 4th & 7th, three full generals, four lieutenant generals, six major generals were retired before their time, not because anyone feared to see them suffer in battle but because plump, red-tape cutting War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha wanted to promote young men with new ideas. The retirement age for the two highest ranks having been cut from 67 to 60, and of major generals from 62 to 57, the Army Gazette simply listed the retirements. The 13, including two former members...