Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been doping the war by counting airplanes, calipering tank armor and timing inundations awoke with a nasty start to the realization that morale is more than a mere word in patriotic orations, that morale is often the simple and terrible difference between victory and defeat. They remembered that lesson as they breathlessly watched bombed Britain, weighed its morale, found it good...
...this was known to Senor Cardenas when the deal was made. This week, for reasons best known to him, he decided to call the whole thing off. Left for him-and the U. S.-was a useful lesson in Japanese penetration...
Producer Vinton Freedley caught her at the Paramount, introduced her to George Gershwin, for whom she sang his newly composed I Got Rhythm. She was promptly signed for Girl Crazy, in which she was an overnight smash. Hearing that she had never had a singing lesson, Gershwin begged her never to take one. She never has. She says: "I breathe when I want to"-which is usually at the precise moment when she has turned a syncopated phrase with sinuous authority. Gershwin was so delighted with her talent that during the run of Girl Crazy he often appeared...
...Larry Bell had perhaps the finest aircraft plant in the U. S. They looked over a production line of some 30 Airacobras -all-metal, low-winged, single-engined pursuit planes designed to fly upwards of 400 m.p.h., climb phenomenally fast to intercept enemy bombers. And the visitors got a lesson in the status of U. S. defense...
...recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said to be sending three whole army divisions: 50,000 teachers equipped with $82,500,000 worth of war material. Rumania would learn a lesson from them which she would not soon forget. "Instructors" were also reported going into Bulgaria and Hungary to teach men how to fall from the sky under parachutes and in dive bombers...