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Word: maneuverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Congressional Record readers guffawed at the latest maneuver of the Prescott, Ariz. polysyllabist-an insertion of no less than 19½ pages (40,000-plus words) of Ashurstiana, the nearest thing there is to a complete collected edition of the famed, lush, Ashurstian magniloquence. Said debonair Henry happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Silver-Tongued Sunbeam | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

The last hope of peace between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. flickered out last week. It died the day John L. Lewis assigned to his less shaggy, more gregarious Brother Denny the task of CIOrganizing 2,000,000 U. S. construction workers. This maneuver struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Next: Construction | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

In 1922 the Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goose and the Golden Shell | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Quality. Anyone who translates these raw figures into inevitable victory for either side is misled. Quality counts as much as or more than quantity. In World War I, for example, command of the air changed hands several times, and the command changed not only when numbers varied but when one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

The ability to foresee, to outguess, to improvise, to make the best of what you have, is absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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