Word: warrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the delay in its announcement last spring, the special course for men in the R.O.T.C. or interested in military work, which the University was to sponsor in conjunction with the Engineering Department, did not gain enough support to warrant its being established last summer...
...undergraduate poll last year. First the idea of self-service was brought up, voted on, and rejected. Then, on May 26, the Student Council voted 60 to 30 per cent in favor of a universal rate. It was feared, however, that this was not a sufficiently strong majority to warrant action by the Master's Sub-Committee on Board Rates, until Dean Hanford announced the new plan on June...
...ancient military prison at Chalon-sur-Saone. Though in Vichy he had been given special facilities, talked with Weygand and Pétain, circulated freely as far as North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports on De Gaullist and Cormmunist activities in France, for which he had paid a young Hungarian journalist, now in a Vichy clink, about...
...Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...
...Warrant officers...