Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tactical units which are below war strength. But after next March, they will spend 14 weeks at replacement centres now building, to learn something of soldiering before joining seasoned troops. Those who look good on the basis of their G. C. test and show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying arm band. Says the War Department: "The arm band will slip off and on with remarkable ease." Those on whom the arm band stays longest may after nine months be admitted to Officers...
...TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville, would get a glimpse of and a crack of their own at the fugitives...
From Athens last week Newsman Leland Stowe (Chicago Daily News) cabled his opinion that Ralph Waldo Barnes, crack war correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1940. Eleven years before, when Stowe was head of the Herald Tribune's Paris bureau, he himself had won a Pulitzer Prize with the aid of young Reporter Barnes, who had managed to get a beat-the full text of the Young Plan-from a delegate to the Reparations Conference in Paris. But Stowe's suggestion was no mere logrolling...
...inspector for the Department of Commerce before FCC took over radio. An inveterate ham, Sterling works in a welter of receivers, transmitters, microphones, recording devices. Temperate in his attitude about radio defense, he is inclined to be lenient with accidental shortcomings of his fellow enthusiasts, doesn't crack down unless violations are flagrant...
...impression of Harvard is that it is "cold and dank" and he laments "the lack of individualistic opportunity." He is confident of a British victory in the present war, praising the English morale with the remark, "I know it is excellent. They are just itching to get a crack at the Fritzos...