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...ammunition passed them by the Senators, Maine's Brewster stepped in to do some scotching. Said he: "I can serve as Exhibit A for isolationists on our difficulties around the world. Yet I am convinced that we are in the game to stay, and rather than pull out our marbles we had better put more in and learn to shoot straight...
...married T/4 in our outfit tried to pull a fast one at Widener the other day. He put in a call slip for a government pamphlet, but it didn't go through. It was for "Ration Book Number Three...
...contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...angle, or position, block is designed to get the most thorough block from the least power by hitting the would-be tackler from some sort of an angle, and with any one of a dozen different types of blocks. None of this push-and-pull strength test stuff. The Harlow system is scientific...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...