Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Potomac put in at Port Everglades, Fla., where the President polished up a short speech, broadcast it that night to the postponed national Jackson Day dinners of the Democrats. The most unpolitical Jackson Day address in history, the speech was a homely little essay on national unity. Said the President: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am sitting in the little cabin of the little ship Potomac, in the harbor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a day of sunshine out in the Gulf Stream. ... In Washington, as you know, the working day of the Presidency in these...
...until 1936. (The Army last week had about as many Springfields as Garands in service but was substituting Garands as fast as production [about 700 a day] permitted.) Since the Army adopted the Garand, the Marine Corps has been under pressure to do the same. (See TIME's photo-essay on the timeless, ubiquitous...
...with Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill ("Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes") in deliberate, sharpshooting marksmanship. The Garand, 3 to 3½ times faster, is therefore the logical choice of those who put high fire power above all else. (See TIME's photo-essay on the Pacific...
...TIME's photo-essay on the timeless, ubiquitous...
...uses both wings of a feud to win an election; a sad comedy about a one-eyed man whose girl two-timed him. Some of the best are merely rich descriptions of farm work masterful records of the quiet talk that runs over it. More ambitious is a poetic essay on graves, generations and the mountain heritage. Toward the end of the volume Hillbilly Stuart breaks into plain English and writes a story of two snakes which is the shortest, best piece in the collection...