Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Braswell, staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, did reveal yesterday, however, that two plans have been suggested in the past for this purpose. The first calls for the prospective soldier to apply to a reserve unit, in the same manner as he might for a division of the National Gurad. The second method provides for a nation-wide lottery, such as that suggested in last December's Adler Manpower Report...
...students in 250 colleges, 1,500 officer-instructors) at a cost of $22 million a year. Required for a second lieutenant's commission: the full four-year course (480 hours) plus one summer training period. The course includes close-order drill and lectures (weapons familiarization, small-unit tactics, Army logistics and administration), gives 40 hours to military history and current U.S. military problems. Hard put to assimilate this year's crop of 15,200 R.O.T.C. graduates, the Army is asking Congress to approve a 8,700-man boost in officer strength, also plans to weed out some overage...
...keep the lexicon manageable, Teachers Wright and Hofford have included only words with five letters or less, and though many are of foreign origin (e.g., baht, the monetary unit of Siam; alif, the first letter of the Arabian alphabet), most are eminently usable in the U.S. Botanists and biologists may already know about corms (short, bulblike stems) and wekas (flightless New Zealand wading birds...
...vocabulary in re- verse: groups of words listed by their last letters. The a's, for instance, run from ba (the soul of man in ancient Egypt) to zamia (a cycadaceous plant). The i's have such useful quickies as ai (a three-toed sloth), li (Chinese unit of measure), obi (a Japanese sash worn with a kimono) and tui (a parson bird...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. said its unit sales were off, but because of a price increase and the death of E.P.T., "net earnings will be larger" than the $7,685,000 a year...