Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the recent opening of the second-floor common room pre-war comforts have been largely restored, Hoya said. It is now possible for this year's committee to turn its attention to the planning of activities in which the whole freshman class can participate, he added...
...cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This, Murray estimated, would cost Bethlehem 10? or 12½? an hour for each of its 80,000 steelworkers. In turn, the steelworkers were abandoning fourth-round wage demands for another year...
Merry Chase. The prospect of peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
...over the distant roofs of Alexandria, southeast of the field, and saw the fighter circling at 5,000 feet. He switched to its radio channel, told its pilot too to circle the field in the left-hand traffic pattern. He got no acknowledgment. As the transport began its final turn, the men in the tower saw a fearful sight-the fighter, wheels down, was streaking straight in for the same runway on which the DC-4 was about to settle down...
...turning out the social science experts, men who are learning how to close the historic breach--but we don't know where to put them. In the teaching profession, there is standing room only, and a great University must turn to "negative guidance," forced to warn its college graduates that the demand for social science experts is limited...