Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense"; of "China Incidents," and of "New Orders in Greater Asia,"-the instinct of the day (for the young, defenseless and unprepared) is self-preservation; and the order of the hour is "to the protecting wings of a mighty defender!" For Australia, Canada or South Africa, this protecting wings are Great Britain's. For Indo-China...
...monkey wrench-apparently flung from the general direction of the Army Ordnance-clunked into the works. The astonished State Department was informed that the War Department disapproved of this deal on two grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...
...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
Although without opposition for the past two weekends, the Freshmen have been given very little layoff, except for that occasioned by the ubiquitous November Hour exam. Scrimmages have been the order of the day this week, and the lineup which faces the invading Indians will be almost the same as that which handed Andover a 20 to 0 setback October...
With the closing of the National guard to volunteers and the impossibility of obtaining a commission in the draft the Marine Reserves becomes attractive to all those whose order number make their call during the next two years likely...