Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldey (junior) College at Wilmington, Del. announced a course for "aerial secretaries," i.e., flying stenographers...
Fame crept in on the catfooted pair yesterday, offering them an aerial post with Ward Beam's World Champion Daredevils, opening soon in Ohio...
...justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial bombing as must involve the slaughter and maiming of innocent civilians ... To kill the innocent is not a lawful means to any end, however good. Therefore, under modern conditions, no war can be waged without employing immoral means. Therefore it must be unjustifiable...
...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...
...more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...