Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January issue of the National Home Monthly (circ. 340,000) a U.S. military expert has written a simple prescription for Canadian peace. Says the New York Times's Hanson Baldwin: "Canada must arm...
...smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free-style championships...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at an annual clinic of 250 college swimming coaches, hale and hardy Handy jumped into a pool to demonstrate his new "twintail" crawl. Instead of kicking his legs alternately and steadily, he gave them turns. While the left leg took three kicks to one arm stroke, the right leg dragged with only a slight relaxed flutter; then the left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger...
...wasn't just students that bothered Lamont's watchdog. A very distinguished professor, cane under his arm and camel's hair coat over a business suit, showed up at 11:30 one night. He explained that he was so busy in the day-time that he hadn't had a chance to look over the library until just then...
...ahead: "Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb," he says, "it had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre attainments or less [will have] nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money...