Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the band will converge on Memorial Hall this afternoon at 1 o'clock in full uniform with red coats, gray trousers, and all the trappings to embark in a body for the Cushing concert...
Little Men in Blue Serge. The arresting fact was rather the heavy sense of fear on every hand-fear principally of another war. "The most obvious symptom," says Fischer, "was the Red Army-still mobilized four and a half million strong. . . . Men in uniform were everywhere, often fully armed. ... It showed, too, in many little incidents-the nervousness of a Russian official when our American interpreter wanted to carry her camera on a Sunday afternoon outing; the unobtrusive little men in blue serge suits who kept turning up in the back of our box at the opera . . . the embarrassed refusals...
Held to a 2-all tie throughout most of the game, the commuters broke the deadlock in the sixth inning to score the winning run. It was the strong defensive work at shortstop of Leo Flynn, only a few days out of his Varsity uniform, that led the Dudley team to victory...
Sailors' scuffles are a familiar story in many a port, and in Latin America they have often helped feed anti-U.S. feeling. The Pérez story was another case of a friendly visit marred by hoodlums in uniform. Said a Monte sidewalk philosopher: "It's a pity these sailors should have picked on Uruguay, the only country in South America that really likes...
Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...