Word: year-and-a-half
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...year-and-a-half old University policy of requiring veterans to accept war credits toward their degree will, generally speaking, be continued, Dean Hanford said yesterday, defending this decision in the face of recent criticsms alleging that under this system men were being forced out of College prematurely...
...slide-rule for some weeks, the architect team of McKim, Mead and White rushed up from New York laden with rolls of blue paper. The Aberthaw Construction Company of Boston wasted no time: saziche sandwiches were prepared, red wine was distributed, and the cement started pouring. After a year-and-a-half of carefully directed work, the building was completed, and the University's treasurer neatly penned a check for $295,000. It was good, and six years later the colonnade was added, bring the seating capacity...
...matter who or what was to blame, the man who was last week taking the rap was the Hollywood craftsman. At unwieldy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has been at sixes & sevens since the death year-and-a-half ago of its one indisputable producer-genius, Irving G. Thalberg, more than 1,000 of the 3,000 studio employes had been dropped from the payroll. At RKO Radio the pruning halted at 250. In the United Artists group, only Producer Walter Wanger was working at top speed. Samuel Goldwyn was temporarily inactive, his corps of laborers laid off; Selznick International, geared...
...sent his nomination to the Senate, only he and Hugo Black knew what was in it and Senator Black's knowledge was hours old. The nomination fell as a bombshell to the press if not to the nominee, whose previous experience on the bench consisted of a year-and-a-half as a "boy judge" in Birmingham's police court. That was in 1910, three years after he had left poverty-bitten Clay County with $1.20 following the burning of the law office young Hugo had managed to set up when he graduated from the University of Alabama...
...Year-and-a-half ago the Morgan Line held a shipwreck reunion in Manhattan aboard the repaired S. S. Dixie (TIME...