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Word: transferable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal actions of officers have been the most obvious cause of resentment by the E.M. ... If an officer becomes particularly odious, his superiors merely transfer him. ... Punishment of officers is considered oldfashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...case pressure on already taxed facilities here this summer, Radcliffe students, with almost no exception, will be officially discouraged from planning to attend the 12-week summer term, Dean Buck said, and no admissions would be granted summer-schooling teachers. Applications for temporary one-term transfer from other colleges will likewise be rejected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Sees College Enrollments of 3000 This Summer, 5800 Next Fall | 4/23/1946 | See Source »

Then he was drafted. He spent a year as a G.I. misfit, in the Transportation Corps, before he got a transfer to Special Services as a one-man entertainment unit. One night at a G.I. concert in Munich he got special traveling orders. It turned out to be the Potsdam Conference. When List played from the Tchaikovsky concerto, Stalin jumped up to propose a toast in vodka, and List had a chance to talk to him. "I said 'I like Tchaikovsky,' and he said, 'Good, I do too.' I said, 'I played the first American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Court Pianist | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Long-awaited by the married ex-servicemen here, the housing ready for occupancy Monday will be followed shortly by the opening of 138 other units. Construction began last January upon transfer of the structures from a South Portland, Maine, defense housing settlement by the Federal Public Housing Authority. Additional housing has been requested from the FPHA to accommodate the influx of married veteran students expected during the summer and fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Temporary Houses Open for Married Veterans | 4/20/1946 | See Source »

When they heard about his dismissal, Kestler's entire staff (51 enlisted men, three officers) forthwith entered requests for transfer. To correspondents, Kestler poured out a bitter account of Lee's heavy-handed interference with G.I. journalism. The General's attitude toward enlisted men, said he, was like that "of an old Southern plantation owner toward his slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Courthouse Lee's Retreat | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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