Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard unit of radioactivity, a curie (for Marie and Pierre Curie, discoverers of radium), originally was used to describe the activity of one gram of radium, is now defined as 37 billion atomic disintegrations per second...
Munro could, if he wanted, start an all-veteran midfield, but he has been working sophomore Ron Huebsch into the first unit. Dick Post and Dave Waring--who got all-New England recognition last year--team with Huebsch, one of the fastest midfielders in the '53 squad...
...Cross will set up a blood-mobile with ten beds in Memorial Hall, Gil Eisner '53, chairman of the Campaign, said yesterday. Last fall the bloodmobile used P.B.H. rooms, but the addition of two beds to the unit necessitated the use of Memorial Hall's larger capacity this time...
...serve 24 months at some period between the ages of 19 and 26. The first four months will be classified as "training," the rest as "service," with the president free to shorten or lengthen this "service" time as the international situation allows. Each man will go in a reserve unit for the six years after his training and service period...
...Marshall's latest plan, announced a month ago, students can pick their branch of service after the term is over, despite "physical" Datives. Thus the pressure on students to enlist during the school year is gone, and with it a great many reasons for joining any kind of military unit right now. There are, however, other reasons why a "wait and see" policy is now very much in order...