Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once: in Burma he escaped the massacre of the Chinese unit to which he was attached, and on Leyte a bomb fatally wounded three U.S. newsmen sleeping alongside...
Homer's concern was forgivable: he had predicted an eight-vote triumph for his amendment to restore the Administration's 35,000-unit program, and had laughed, "Lyndon, this time I'm going to rub your nose in it." Now Lyndon was busily wheedling more votes, and gaining time to do it in the name of senatorial courtesy, i.e., fairness to Humphrey...
Private Hope. Before week's end, Dr. Scheele announced that the P.H.S.'s testing unit, the Laboratory of Biologics Control, was being overhauled, given new direction, status and staff (with a budget boost of $750,000). All this in the hope that in future it could handle vaccines for polio and other diseases with a new sureness and efficiency...
...example, during '30's junior year the University Band gained the distinction of possessing the largest bass drum in the country and paraded as the largest marching unit in the East. That year the football team collected its first victory over Yale since 1922. The Crimson's much-publicized line was sparked by James Douglas, Jr. '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, and James E. Barrett '30, captain of the 1929 eleven...
...claimed that an addition to the House system would make each unit of a more manageable size, providing in part for the College's "need for something of the warmth and companionship that comes from fraternity living." The educational aspect of the addition would be an intensification of and improvement on the vital tutorial system, Cheever said...