Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shorts and constructed of twelve layers of laminated nylon duck encased in a plastic and nylon fabric, the Army's "lower torso armor" will weigh 4 lbs. (Weight of vest and shorts together: 12 lbs.). Marine Corps armored shorts, which weigh about a pound less than the Army version, have been in experimental use in Korea since early November. The reaction of marines who have worn them in combat: "Favorable...
...Muscle Culture." As last week's tournament showed, the sport of judo, founded in 1882 by a Japanese named Jigoro Kano, is nothing more than a gentlemanly version of jujitsu. Kano learned the ancient art at 18, but decided that the kicking, stabbing and choking were more than he could stomach. So he founded the "muscle culture" of judo, an "efficient use of energy" that eliminated the mayhem and murder of jujitsu. Since Kano's time, the judo cult has spread to all corners of the globe. The first judo club was formed in Britain...
Hearst's name had been omitted accidentally from the original ballot, the Student Council printed up a second version, this time with all 24 names, and a revote was held Wednesday afternoon...
...second House production scheduled last evening, Winthrop House players hammed their way through a version of Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road" before a large audience in Winthrop Junior Common Room. Although unChristmas-like, to say the least, the production was well received, if guffaws can be used as a basis for judgment...
...year's true bestseller was the Bible. Though this is so every year, it was true this time with an important difference. The new Revised Standard Version, product of 15 years of scholarship, was one of the few Bibles ever copyrighted. With the best book-shopping weeks still ahead, 1,600,000 copies had been sold. Next to the Bible on the bestseller list stood Catherine Marshall's warm, clear-eyed biography of her husband, the late chaplain of the Senate, A Man Called Peter...