Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corps, regiment, or unit is the outstanding characteristic of the British soldier . . ."), the booklet launches into the ticklish questions of discipline and saluting: "There is nothing in the least servile or derogatory in the custom. The the salute is a mutual gesture of respect to King's uniform...
...London, at the Trooping of the Colour, General Gamelin watched from a balcony beside Queen Mary. Also present at the Trooping, although not in uniform, was Germany's General Walter von Reichenau, who was in London to attend the meetings of the International Olympic Committee...
...Japanese beat everybody to the protest, complained to British Consul General Sir Herbert Phillips against R. M. Tinkler's "lawlessness toward a Japanese uniform." Said an Embassy spokesman: "That Japanese marines should have disarmed Tinkler and manhandled him is to be expected under the circumstances. We are surprised he was not killed on the spot." British were investigating...
...iron makers have tried for years to turn out a uniform quality iron. Till now this has depended on the varying accuracy with which blast furnace attendants, watching the flame through peepholes, regulate the forced flow of air whose moisture was at the mercy of the weather. With the new Carrier outfit, already proved experimentally, no flame regulation will be necessary; it can condense an average of some 20 tons of water out of Birmingham Valley's smoky atmosphere daily, feed air of constant low humidity into the furnace. If successful, the new air-conditioning trick will remove...
...journey: 16 years; average age on arrival: 39. The committee proposed that the number of teachers' categories be reduced from 16 to six (including visiting lecturers), that the trial period be cut from 16 to eight years. Salaries, now varying widely in each category, will be made uniform: $1,200 for teaching fellows (graduate students); $2,500 for annual instructors; $2,750 to $3,300 (rising by five annual increments) for faculty instructors; $4,000 to $7,000 for associate professors; $8,000 to $12,000 (according to merit) for full professors...