Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson Key Society began last night its campaign to introduce freshmen to the House system. The program features a one hour speech in each proctorial unit and tours of the Houses from 2 to 4:30 p.m. each afternoon next week...
...story on "draft dodgers" in the National Guard. "Engine Charlie" has gone too far. Let him check up on the officers and enlisted men who had duty in World War II and who were called up for active duty in the summer of 1950. When my particular unit was called up, we had a master sergeant who had seen action in France in 1917-18. I suppose he was dodging the draft too. How about asking Wilson about the draft dodgers who are not coming back from Korea...
...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...
...snorkels and similar gadgets sold in the corner store, civilian doctors are daily confronted with unfamiliar problems. In the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the Navy's top underwater medicinemen, Lieut. Edward H. Lanphier, offers a primer. Dr. Lanphier, of the Navy's Experimental Diving Unit in Washington, D.C., is principally concerned about amateurs who use "scuba"-the skindiver's abbreviation for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus...
...curie is the unit of radioactivity. One curie is 37 billion (3.7 times 10^10) atomic disintegrations per second. One micromicrocurie is one-millionth of one-millionth of a curie...